But what you may not have thought about, is that Jelly Belly is also perfect for parties - and on their website they have so many cool ideas of things you can make with the Jelly Beans, from Snack Mix, Movie Popcorn, Cupcakes, Fudge.. Or the best decorated cakes you can imagine, with only your imagination being the limit. But thankfully Jelly Belly has heaps of ideas and inspiration too on how you can use them to decorate cakes according to party themes.
One of the coolest creations is the Jelly Belly Pinata Cake... Jelly Belly showed their creation, which I admit looks incredible, and you can find the recipe below if you want to recreate it like them. It is a very big cake, serving 10+, but with no birthdays coming up, there is simply a limit to how much my husband and I and our two little boys, aged 2 and 4 can eat.. So we consequently attempted our own smaller version..
To make this cake, we only used one single sponge cake, and we used a chocolate sponge cake, everyone favourite. We then cut out a whole in the centre of the cake, while leaving the top part of the cake intact. Hereafter we filled the hole with as many Jelly Belly's as we could possibly fit in, before putting on the icing. We didn't use buttered icing, but standard icing sugar, with a bit of red colour and raspberry flavour.
I had promised our little boys that they could help decorate the cake with the Jelly Belly's, but the wait for the icing sugar to dry got the better them, and they just couldn't wait - so the still very wet icing sugar did mean that the cake, looks-wise unfortunately didn't turn to be competition worthy, but our boys had such a blast decorating it, and eating the odd (ok many!!) jelly beans as they went along. They were so proud of their masterpiece that they just couldn't wait for daddy to come how so they could show him. And of course they thought it was the most delicious cake they'd ever tasted.
This is seriously such a great idea, and this Pinata Cake would no doubt be a massive hit at any kids party! And it is so easy to do.
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| Our 4 year old's creation... |
And here's how the original Jelly Belly Jelly Bean Pinata Cake looked.. :-)
And here's how you make it..
Serves 10 - Prep time 20 minutes, plus 1 hour freezing time
Ingredients
- 500g butter, softened at room temperature
- 5 cups pure icing sugar
- 2 x plain sponge cakes
- Blue food colour
- 200g white chocolate, melted
- Jelly Belly Jewel Beans to decorate
Method
- Using an electric mixer beat butter until light and creamy. Add icing sugar and beat until combined. Add drops of desired colour, a few at a time and mix well.
- Using a 6.5cm round cutter make a hole in the center of 3 sponge cakes. Reserving one sponge hole for the top.
- Place cakes onto a serving platter and freeze for 1 hour until firm.
- Remove from freezer. Spread one cake with a little icing, top with a second cake. Repeat with remaining cake. Fill the center with Jelly Belly jelly beans and replace sponge hole to level the sponge cake in the last layer. Ice the top and sides of the cake and decorate with Jelly Belly jelly beans.
- Place white chocolate into a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water. Stir till smooth, set aside for 10 minutes to cool slightly.
- Decorate the top and sides with Jelly Belly jelly beans.
Jelly Belly used 3 sponges, but if you want a higher cake then use all 4 sponges. Freeze the 4th sponge cake for later use.
Jelly Belly - RRP: $25 / 1kg
Jelly Belly Jelly Beans - Available from David Jones, Big W, Kmart, Toys R Us, Caltex, Chemist warehouse, Coles, and select other stores and online stores
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