To celebrate October 3rd (MEAN GIRLS DAY), I made this cake filled with rainbows and smiles. Would you please tell this cake that it looks sexy with its hair pushed back? Best enjoyed in the projection room above the auditorium, on a Friday, so you can wear your tracksuit pants. How many references can I make to mean girls? The limit does not exist.
Here’s how to make the most fetch cake ever.. totally vegan!
BURN BOOK CAKE (FILLED W/ RAINBOWS & SMILES SO EVERYONE CAN EAT AND BE HAPPY)
Ingredients
Cake:
4x Vanilla Cake Mix (vegan-friendly: I used Green’s “Moist Vanilla Cake”)
100g powdered egg replacer (25g per cake)
300ml aquafaba or extra liquid (75ml per cake)
Buttercream:
125g margarine/dairy-free butter
1.5 cups powdered sugar
½ tablespoon dairy-free milk
Food Colouring
Decorations:
Ready-to-roll icing/fondant
Black food gel
Red food colouring
Vegan-friendly cookies (I used gluten-free ‘Smiles’ from Woolworths)
Dairy-free white chocolate squares
Dairy-free chocolate squares
Skittles
Sprinkles/popping candy (optional)
Method
1. Preheat oven to 180c/160c fan forced. Grease a 20cm (8-inch) round cake pan. Make cake according to packet directions noting the following: substitute room temperature dairy-free milk and butter in equal amounts for what is called for on the packet. In lieu of egg, add the equivalent of 2.5 eggs in powdered egg replacer and make up the additional liquid required with aquafaba. Add drops of food colouring to each batch to make 4 different colours. Make the colour darker than desired as they will lighten after baking.
2. Spread mixture into pan. Bake for about 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Allow to rest for 5 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack to cool upside down.
3. To make buttercream, beat cold butter for 1 minute, before gradually beating in half the sifted icing sugar then milk, then remaining icing sugar. Beat sifted cocoa into butter cream. Beat until smooth then separate into 4 bowls. Add food colouring to each to match the cake colours and mix well.
4. Melt a small amount of chocolate and paint smiles on the cookies if needed.
5. Use a glass to cut out a hole in the middle of each cake. Level cake top if required; secure first cake, cut-side down, on a cake stand with a little butter cream.
6. Repeat and layer remaining cakes, using the matching coloured buttercream to secure and coat the outside.
7. Mix cookies, skittles and sprinkles in a bowl and pour into the centre of the cake.
8. Roll out icing and use a toothpick to prick red food colouring in. Knead and repeat until you get the right colour of pink, then roll out and place over the cake. Trim excess icing.
9. Use a toothpick, small brush or similar to paint burn book designs around the cake.
10. Use a lighter to gently warm one side of each chocolate square to secure on the top of the cake. Melt white and dark chocolate and paint on ‘BURN BOOK’ lettering. Use red food gel to paint on a lipstick stain in the centre. Cut and serve!