How to make a Peppa Pig Cake

Peppa Pig Birthday Cake

Peppa Pig - described by Jason Mansford as a 3rd parent to his little girls they love and watch it so much!

My little girl loves her too, so for her 3rd birthday she had a Peppa Pig cake.

Lots of people have admired the cake, so here are some outline instructions on how to make a Peppa Pig Cake

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You will need

• A Peppa shaped tin

Get the tin (link to ebay seller who also have a range of other great tins)

 

For the cake

• 6 medium eggs
• 350g caster sugar
• 350g marg/butter
• 300g self raising flour
• 50g cocoa powder
• (Optional) chocolate chips

For the icing/decoration

• 80g marg/butter
• 300g of icing sugar
• Splash of milk

• 500g of pink icing (Renshaw)
• 250g of red icing (Renshaw)
• Small amount of white icing
• Small amount of black icing

Pre-coloured icing can be bought in Tesco (or for more choice/pack sizes try Hobbycraft/online)

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Making the cake...

1. Pre heat oven to 160C
2. Grease the tin (perhaps consider using a cake release spray - available from Tesco)
3. Put the marg and caster sugar into a large bowl and mix well
4. Break eggs into a measuring jug and beat with a fork
5. Add about a third of the flour and a third of the eggs and mix in
6. Add the cocoa powder, some more flour and some more egg and mix in
7. Repeat 5 until all the egg, flour and cocoa powder is incorporated
8. Finally stir in the chocolate chips
9. Cook for 30 minutes, then check and if necessary cover with tin foil before returning to the oven for a further 10 minutes.
10. Wait 10 minutes after taking the cake out of the oven before turning out onto a large cake board or tray

Before baking

Baked cake

Naked Peppa Pig cake before decoration

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Decorating the cake...

Start by making buttercream with the icing sugar and marg and then roughly covering the cake. This will make the cake taste better and the icing stick.

Next roll out the pink icing to about 3mm thick, making sure that there is sufficient icing in each direction to cover just over half the cake, and the edges.

Don't worry about the neck edge being straight or smooth as this will be covered by the red icing anyway.

Then use a sharp knife to trim around the edges

Next roll out the red icing.

Use the cake tin to gently mark the shape of the body into the icing - again make sure that there is sufficient icing to cover all sides.

This mark will also allow you to neatly cut the neck edge with a knife before lifting it onto the cake

The hard part is now done!

All you need to do now is add the finishing touches.

• Mix a small amount of pink and white icing together and then make a disk shape for each ear and the nose
• From the red icing still rolled out on the worktop, cut a smile (I used the neck edge)
• Mix a small amount of red with either pink or white icing and make a disk for Peppa's rosy cheek
• Make two arms (see picture below)
• Finally add two eyes and two nostrils
• Then you're done - just use a damp paper towel to wipe any stray buttercream/icing sugar off the edge of the tray