Easy Peppa Pig Cake
Our Peppa Pig Cake is a cute and easy birthday cake for a Peppa Pig Party and we have all the step-by-step directions you will need to create it for your birthday girl!
Ingredients
- Cake – can be a layer cake or a sheet cake
- 1-2 batches of our The Best Buttercream Frosting - amount depends on the size of the cake
- Food Coloring - Pink
- M&M's - Light Pink, Dark Pink, Red, White and Brown
Instructions
- Gather up the M&M's You will need Dark Pink, Light Pink, Red, White and Brown.
- Prepare 1-2 batches of our Best Buttercream Frosting (you will find the recipe and detailed directions here). If you have made a 9x13" sheet cake or an 8" two-layer cake, a single batch of frosting will be fine. But you'll probably need 2 batches of frosting for anything bigger than that.
- Color the frosting pink. We used 2 drops of Wilton Color Right Food Coloring to color the frosting a very light pink.
- Frost your cake. We used a basic two-layer round yellow cake. You can use a sheet cake, a pan of brownies, a store-bought cake ... anything you want.
- Find a picture of Peppa Pig on Google Images. Print it out so that the head fits on the top of your cake. Carefully, lay the print-out on the top of your frosted cake but don't press down on it.
- Use a knife to lightly trace the outline of Peppa's head into the frosting and then remove the print-out.
- Using your line as a guideline, use Dark Pink M&M's to define the outside of Peppa's head.
- Now use Dark Pink M&M's to create Peppa's ears. Her back ear is a little bigger than the front ear. Fill the empty space with Light Pink M&M's.
- Using your picture as a guide for placement, create a small smiling mouth with Red M&M's.
- Use White and Black M&M's to make Peppa's eyes.
- Use Dark Pink M&M's to make Peppa's cheek.
- Starting with the nose area - work to the right and fill in the rest of Peppa's head with Light Pink M&M's.
Notes
Where to find the M&M's
We used Dark Pink and Light Pink colored M&M’s to create our Peppa Pig M&M Cake. The Dark Pink M&M's were from the special Valentine's Bag of M&M's and the Light Pink M&M's are from the Easter Bag of M&M's. We always stock up on bags of these special “holiday” M&M’s so we can use these non-traditional M&M colors on projects throughout the year. (Two Sisters Tip: We’ve had great luck finding holiday M&M’s up to 50% off in grocery stores in the week after a holiday is over.) But don't worry if you haven't started building up your own stash of holiday-colored M&M's, you can find these dark and light pink colors of M&M's at Party Supply stores like Party City, or Amazon, or other online candy warehouses. You'll also need a handful of white M&M's for Peppa's eyes. (White M&M's are also sold in the Valentine's and 4th of July bag of M&M's.). You'll need a few red and brown M&M's which you can get from a small pack of regular M&M's.
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