It was my birthday a couple of week ago but I never actually made myself a birthday cake, so last weekend we had some friends over for a BBQ, which turned out to be an indoor affair due to the rain that decided to arrive not long before it started, and one of my friends also had a birthday a few days before mine, so I decided that this was the perfect excuse for me to make one for us to share and for our friends to help eat.
I opted to make a chocolate cake and decided to add a touch of the Cadbury’s #freethejoy to it by adding popping candy to the chooclate frosting, making an oreo vanilla buttercream for the inside and creating a hidden surprise element of a pinata middle using the Cadbury’s Marvellous Mix Up sweets and chocolates.
Mmmmmm!! Anyway, here is how I made it
- 175g self raising flour
- 200g unsalted butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 25g drinking chocolate
- 4 eggs
- 1 tub of Betty Crocker vanilla flavoured buttercream
- 6 bags of Cadbury’s Marvellous Mix Ups (3 of each variant)
- 1 x 400g jar of chocolate spread (I used Tesco value)
- 1 x 200g tub of full fat cream cheese
- 1 x 55g tub of Dr.Oetker Rainbow Popping Candy
- grease and line 2 x 8 inch baking tins
- pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC (fan)
- *To make the sponges:
- Cream the butter with the sugar until pale and creamy
- Add the eggs and a spoonful of the sifted flour and beat together
- Carefully add the remaining flour and the cocoa powder and fold in until combined
- Divide the mixture between the two baking tins and place in the oven
- Cook for about 20-25 minutes until cooked
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely before slicing each sponge in half to make 4 sponge layers
- Cut a hole in the two middle sponges – I used a large scone cutter – and remove the sponge disks (I ate mine but you might be abel to think of another use for them!).
- **To make the Oreo buttercream**
- Simply place the vanilla buttercream into a mixing bowl and add 2 tbsp of the cream cheese and beat well. Then remove all the mini oreos from the marvellous mix up bags, and either bash them with a rolling pin or place them in the mixing bowl with the buttercream as I did, and I added it to my free standing mixer and beat it until the oreos crumbled, making a oreo buttercream.
- **To assemble the cake**
- Add buttercream to the whole of the bottom layer sponge, then carefully add a sponge with the cut out , and carefully cover the outer ring with the buttercream, being careful not to add any in hole. The repeat with the other middle layer.
- Remove the large fudge chocolates, and about 10 of the white and milk chocolate buttons, from the mix up bags and leave to one side
- Add all of the other sweets into the deep hole in the middle of the cake
- The add the final sponge
- Place into a fridge for 30 minutes to firm up, to make it easier for adding the frosting
- **To make the popping candy chocolate frosting**
- Simply mix the chocolate spread with the remaining cream cheese and then stir through the popping candy
- Cover the outer of the cake with the frosting and then decorate with the remaining mix ups that you put to one side
- Place in the fridge until you are ready to serve and remove about 30 minutes before serving.
- Enjoy!
This cake was definately a crowd pleaser and certainly had the wow! factor, which is exactly what I was out to achive. As my friends watched it being cut open to reveal the suprise marvellous mix ups centre, they were not expecting to see the sweets fall out to #freethejoy Nor were they expecting the oreo buttercream inside or the popping candy chocolate frosting on the outside. It was aruddy marvellous cake which not only looked great but tasted great too!
A perfect belated birthday cake indeed!
GIVE AWAY
So if you were presented with bags of Cadbury’s Marvellous Mix Ups what would you create to #freethejoy? I made this cake but the team at Cadbury’s have been very creative and made some great works of chocolate and sweet art to make us smile and #freethejoy. One thing which is certain to make you smile and #freeyourjoy is a trip to Cadbury’s World – *this* is something that I have wanted to do for a very long time and while I know that it will not be exactly like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, a girl can dream and still get excited at the prospect of a visit!
To win a Family Pass to Cadbury’s World all you need to do is reveal what chocolate creation you would design to #freethejoy. Please fill in the form below to enter and good luck. Closing date is Monday 21st July, 2014.
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I was sent some bags of Marvellous Mix Ups and a family pass to Cadbury’s World as a thank you for posting this give away. The recipe is my own idea
Clare @asmilebypost
Fab willie wonka style cake! I like it. There’s only one way to #freethejoy – it’ll have to be a totally indulgent yet calorie free chocfest!
Sara (@mumturnedmom)
Oh my goodness, you are a cake genius 🙂 That is chocolate and sweet heaven really, isn’t it? Love it x #TastyTuesdays
Frances Sunshine Hopkins
WOW your cake is amazing!! I’d love to try and do that
Donna @ Little Lilypad Co
I gave up chocolate before Easter but this looks too tempting ……
Leanne Lunn
A lovely cadburys decorated birthday cake for my daughter
Liz Burton
What a gorgeous looking cake!
I think I’d make a chocolate bath – a real indulgence!
Laura hughes
My son loves chocolate cake x
Aly
Mmmmmm….. chocolate cake.I’m yet to try a Pinata cake, perhaps I can try one for my birthday.
Mark pitchers
Old Jamaica Eton mess, chocolate meringue, rum flavoured cream rum soak raisers, and broken bits of Cadburys old Jamaica bar
Jenny Paulin
Ooooh now that sounds lush x
Elizabeth (Liz) Briggs
Wow I love your cake – my childrens eyes would pop out of their heads if they opened that up on their birthdays 🙂 I would love to make donuts with hidden sweets inside the jam x
Kayleigh Main
Id attempt to make the cake pictured on here!
christine shelley
A trolley bus to please my husband
Sarah - Boo Roo and Tigger Too
I actually really love your pinata cake so would love to make it for our wedding anniversary in September
Julie
Love your cake Jenny.
I’d create a 3 tier chocolate cake decorated with Cadbury’s buttons. #freethejoy
Jayne Townson
Your cake looks fantastic. I would make a chocolate teddy bear cake.
Lorraine Tinsley
The cake looks amazing, shame my silly husband doesn’t eat chocolate cake…. hmm more for me!!! I think I’ll make cupcake versions so a bit like fairy cakes with the middle scooped out
Rachel J
Crazy idea for a cake! I love it. 🙂
If I could I would make magic pop cakes like the ones in Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree but instead honey (which is okay but way too sickly for me) I would have them bursting with the warm flowing chocolate they give you at Cadbury World #freethejoy #heaven.
Penny Carr
That looks blooming’ gorgeous. It’s my birthday next week so I’m wondering if I can print this out and leave it somewhere for my husband to find it… 😉
Helen Huxley
An enormous chocolate cake
Gemma Williams
I don’t know the theme but this has inspired me to make a sponge with crunchy through it mmm honeycomb crunch / don’t know if it will work
dean willoughby
Amazing cakes. May even attempt a go ourselves.
dawn hales
a train cake made from cadburys choc rolls, finger biscuits and chocolate covered biscuits for wheels
jayne fotheringham
i actually have no idea! i get great cake ideas and then when it comes to it, they always turn out better in my head!
Amy
I’d make a big chocolate birthday cake.
emmav6
my son would love a thomas the tank chocolate cake with carridges full of sweeties 🙂
sandra rubery
I love the little pot of chocolate that they give you when you go. I love to do that to a dairy milk at home
Penny A Residence
Wow stunning cake Jenny and gorgeous pics, LOVELY. Popping candy ACE! Hmmm not sure I can top that at all. I generally make a choc cake and let my kids loose with a bag of chocs and sweets. The new Cadbury range would be marvellous for that!
Kelly L
chocolate cake looks gprge might just make it myself
Natasha M
I would make cupcakes with a secret centre
kris
Choc teddy bear cake
Val Swift
A big yummy chocolate cake
laura jayne bates
would make chocolat caramel and popping candy
Tammy Tudor
a castle 🙂
Deborah Dodge
Chocolate brownies with biscuits and candy in
sian hallewell
#freethejoy with a refrigerator cake
maz watson
a massive chocolate cake with as many different cadbury chocolates as possible #freethejoy
Amy Ripley
#freethejoy a massive chocolate cake with extra chocolate!
Honest Mum
Apt name as it is totally and utterly MARVELLOUS! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays
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Cat Culmer
Your cake is amazing!
I’d create something with the banana and caramel crisp marvellous creations. I’m obsessed
DeniseUK
I’d have a Cadbury’s Twirl cake with Twirls on top and in the middle would be mini chocolate flakes – mmmmm #freethejoy but sadly #backonthediet
Helen Sims The good life mum
fab cake there if you had not of made it i think you would be surprised at the center
Holly Edmundson
Would like to make a castle shape cake with a surprise middle 🙂 x
Suzanne Cooke
I would design a chocolate Jenga, the one who gets to the end eats it!
Lynn Blakeman
Anything that involves Cadbury Crunchie would give me that Friday feeling every day and would certainly #freethejoy
Lucy @SupergoldenBakes
Fabulous cake – my kids would be over the moon to find the surprising centre!
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Helen at Casa Costello
Good heavens, Jenny! That looks incredible. I’m hoping to make my first Piñata cake this week for 12yo’s birthday. Here Goes! Thanks again for joining in with #Bakeoftheweek x
Angie Poulding
#freethejoy I’d try and make something that resembled Batman for my five year old boy.
Mellissa Williams
I’d love to recreate the cake you made! #freethejoy
Suzanne Howell
Wow, love your cake, what a great idea. I would perhaps make a three tier cake; one each of dark, milk and white chocolate – something then for everyone.
Solange
Chocolate cake
Claire Appleton
I would also make a cake with lots of chocolate indulgences 🙂 #freethejoy
sam bailey
I have to be a soppy cow here, id make a chocolate cheesecake, in the shape of a heart, with strawberries on the top and lashing of chocolate everywhere else 😉
megan davies
I would create an edible pinyata
adele knight
A chocolate house!
Zoey
Wow fabulous cake, I’d love to make a white rainbow drop chocolate cake
cheryl lovell
I would make a coffee and walnut cake!
Tina Hector
oh my!! i dont think this is syn free on slimming world!!!! oh well bang goes the diet!!
Mia Clarke
looks yummy – full of surprises
Sarah Ballantyne
Fantastic cake! My kids love strawberries and raspberries so I’d love to make a cake similar to your stuffed with berries.
natalie holland
That cake looks incredible. I’d attempt to make a cadbury’s chocolate mousse cake yum
Jane Middleton
triple chocolate cake
Felicity Kelly
I would make chocolate decorated cupcakes yum
Fiver Feeds
Looks delicious! Thanks for sharing this recipe 🙂
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