What is the secret of the holiday cake: attractive design and verified taste. But what if you play a little with the form and add a little surprise in the form of a dragee? So peculiar piñata cakes are perfect for a festive table and will challenge delight in both children and adults. Share with friends: 
Time: 4 hours. Complexity: easy Servings: 8 – 10 Measured containers are used in recipes volume: 1 cup (st.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cups (st.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (Art.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
Cake
- 2.5 tbsp. premium flour, and optionally for sprinkling of forms
- 1 tbsp. l baking powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 165 gr. butter, room temperature
- 1 and 1/3 Art. Sahara
- 4 large egg yolks, room temperature (proteins use for glaze)
- 1 tbsp. l vanilla extract
- 1 and 1/3 Art. whole milk
Icing and filling
- 4 large egg whites, room temperature
- 2/3 Art. Sahara
- 1/3 Art. amber syrup or honey
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 220 gr plus 6 tbsp. l (90 gr.) Butter, cut pieces and soften a little
- 1.5 tbsp. золотых M&M’s
- 1 small pack of edible gold powder (you can buy in specialized stores or online)
Recipes with similar ingredients: premium flour, eggs, milk, honey, dragees
Recipe preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 175 ° C. Cover 2 round 20 cm. Forms for baking a cake with a cooking spray, cover the bottom with parchment. Sprinkle parchment with a cooking spray and sprinkle on the bottom and walls of the mold flour, shake off excess.
- Cooking a biscuit: in a medium-sized bowl with a whisk, mix the flour, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl beat the butter with sugar at medium speed until light and airy texture, 3 – 5 min. Switch the mixer to low revs; add the egg yolks one at a time, add the next yolk only after the previous one is fully interfered. Add vanilla. In 3 sets, mix the flour, alternating it with 2 with milk, and beat until completely mixed (nothing scary if the dough is like cottage cheese). Switch mixer at medium speed and beat for another 1 min.
- Divide the dough between the prepared forms and evenly distribute. Bake for about 40 minutes, in the middle of cooking turn cakes; the tops should podgold and the center a little spring with a slight pressure. Give 15 min. to stand in forms then go with a knife around the perimeter of the cakes so that they behind the walls. Lay on a rack and let cool completely; discard the parchment.
- Glaze preparation: in a medium saucepan on moderate heat several cm. of water to a boil. In the mixer bowl beat egg whites with sugar and syrup. Set the bowl over a pot; melt, stirring until sugar dissolves, egg whites will become foamy, and the mixture is warm, about 5 min Rearrange the bowl under the planetary mixer and beat with a nozzle whisk at moderately high speed until hard glossy peaks.
- Replace the whisk with the spatula. Stir in the vanilla after that keep kneading until smooth, adding gradually butter, a few slices at a time (no big deal, if the icing does not look uniform) continue to whisk.
- Cut a hole with a diameter of 9 in the center of the cake with a fruit knife cm.; set both sides aside.
- Mark in the center of the other cake a circle with a diameter of 9 cm and a spoon remove the core before reaching the bottom; gently shift the cake to serving dish. Lubricate it with 1 tbsp. glaze (without going into Centre).
- On top of the second cake, put the first cake with through hole, and fill in the formed well dragee M&M’s.
- Cut off the remaining 9 cm. horizontal pieces of cake apex 1.2 cm high .; set it in the cake above the sweets in as a cover.
- Cover the whole cake with the remaining icing. Put in refrigerator for about 20 minutes to lightly glaze hardened.
- Dip a small dry brush in food gold; decorate the cake gold, tapping on the brush and walking her inaccessible places.
