Angry Birds Cake

The ever-popular mobile phone game was the perfect inspiration for a cake.

I started by baking the cakes. One large tray of Victoria sponge cake (approx. 20cm x 30cm) and around 18 cupcakes. I baked the cupcakes in silicon cases as this made it easier to remove the cases- paper cases are a bit of a fiddle

To make the birds and pigs I stuck two cupcakes together with the tops facing each other using icing/ frosting. I then used the same icing to cover the whole of the two cakes to make a sphere.


I found the easiest icing to work with for this is Betty Crocker Rich and Cream Frosting (http://www.bettycrocker.com/products/frosting/products). It is just the right consistency and is the same stuff you can use to dip them (see below). You can buy it from all large supermarket chains in the UK.


Once I had iced all the cake pairs together I put them in the freezer. They only need to be semi-frozen to stop them falling apart when you dip them so l left them for about 15 minutes.


Meanwhile, I made all the features like the eyes and beaks out of royal icing in various colours. You can buy multi-packs of the colours from most large supermarkets.. The pig’s snouts are marshmallows. The small details like the middle of the eyes were drawn of using a black edible ink pen. You can get these from more specialist stores.


I melted a few large spoonfuls of the icing in a bowl in the microwave. It was runny but not separated. Best to zap it for 10 seconds, check, stir, do it for 10 seconds more etc. I then added the food colouring of the bird and dipped the semi-frozen cakes in the icing to coat them. Using this melted icing method means you get a nice smooth coat rather than the whipped effect of using the icing cold. The owls can just be dipped in the chocolate version of the icing.


The small blue birds and pigs were rolls of royal icing. I thought after it would have been nice to but a glace cherry in the middle as no-one really enjoys solid icing!


I then assembled the cake with the help of a couple of friends. The grass is the same type of icing as used on the birds. The pigs “hid-out” is various chocolate bars and biscuits. A few mint choc sticks provided support. We stuck the structure together using chocolate icing.


A lot of fun, a lot a sugar, some tasty angry birds!