Preparation Time: 15 minutes | Cook Time: 10 minutes | Serves: 1 four-layer cake (about 20 slices)
Ingredients
For the cake:
180ml cooking oil
500g Snowflake Creations Vanilla Flavoured Cake Mix
3 extra large Eggs, room temperature
250ml milk
For the icing:
150g butter or baking margarine, softened
300g vanilla-flavoured icing mix
30ml milk
Blue food colouring
Sprinkles
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Mix eggs, oil and milk with an electric mixer for about 30 seconds until the mixture is a light creamy colour, then add cake mix.
- Beat batter with an electric mixer on low heat for about 30 seconds until incorporated. Increase to high speed and beat for about 4 minutes until smooth and combined.
- Pour the batter evenly into two greased 20cm round cake tins or three 16cm round cake tins, and bake for about 30 minutes (if using smaller tins, reducing baking time slightly).
- Cool completely before frosting.
- Beat the softened butter or baking margarine with an electric mixer on high speed for about 1 minute until creamy.
- Combine icing mix with butter/baking margarine and beat on low speed until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add the milk and mix on high for about 2 minutes until creamy.
- Ice one layer of the cake, then add the second layer of cake and ice the top.
- Use food colouring to dye half of the remaining icing blue.
- Put the two layers together. Ice the surface of the bottom half with the blue icing and the surface of the top half with the white icing. Top with sprinkles.
- Use modelling chocolate to create mini car decorations for the top and side of the cake, or use toys to add a touch of magic!
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Preparation Time: 15 minutes | Cook Time: 10 minutes | Serves: 10 cupcakes
Ingredients
For the cake:
20 Large cupcake holders / 40 standard cupcake holders
3 extra large Eggs, room temperature
500g Snowflake Creations Vanilla Flavoured Cake Mix
250ml milk
100ml cooking oil
For the icing:
150g butter/baking margarine, softened
300g vanilla-flavoured icing mix
Sprinkles
30ml milk
Method
- Mix the eggs, oil, and milk with an electric mixer for about 30 seconds until the mixture is a light creamy colour. Then add the cake mix.
- Beat the batter with an electric mixer for about 30 seconds on low speed until incorporated. Then beat on high speed for about 4 minutes until smooth and combined.
- Place paper cups into cupcake tins and spoon equal quantities of batter into each, until half full.
- Preheat your oven to 180°C.
- Bake for about 12 minutes.
- Cool completely on a wire rack before icing.
- Beat softened butter/baking margarine with an electric mixer for about 1 minute on high speed until creamy.
- Combine the icing mix with butter/baking margarine and beat on a low speed until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add the milk and mix for about 2 minutes on high speed until creamy.
- Using a piping bag, frost the top of the cupcakes in a swirl and add sprinkles.
- Decorate using modelling chocolate to create mini car decorations to top the cupcakes, use edible decorations or toys for a magic touch!
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Preparation Time: 15 minutes | Cook Time: 10 minutes | Serves: 15 slices
Ingredients
For the cake:
200ml Cooking Oil
6 extra large Eggs, room temperature
1000g Snowflake Creations Vanilla Flavoured Cake Mix (3 boxes)
500ml milk
For the icing:
300g butter/baking margarine
600g vanilla-flavoured icing mix
60ml milk
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Mix eggs, oil, and milk with an electric mixer for about 30 seconds until the mixture is a light creamy colour. Then add the cake mixes.
- Beat the batter with an electric mixer on low speed for 30 seconds until incorporated. Then increase on high speed for about 4-6 minutes until smooth and combined.
- Pour batter into four (2 larger tins and 2 smaller tins) greased round cake tins and bake for about 30 minutes (bake smaller tins for a slightly shorter time).
- Cool completely before frosting.
- Beat softened butter/baking margarine with an electric mixer for about 1 minute on high speed until creamy.
- Combine icing mix with butter/baking margarine and beat on a low speed until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add the milk and mix on high for about 2 minutes until creamy.
- Separate the icing into three bowls and use the food colouring to create three different coloured batches of icing.
- Ice the cakes and add layers of coloured fondant icing to create the background, then use fondant and modelling chocolate to create various shapes like traffic ones, road signs, traffic lights, cars and clouds. Use a dab of melted chocolate to stick fondant to fondant!
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