Chocolate Piñata Volcano Cake

JBrutton27 @cook_22053726

I wanted to make a volcano cake for my school project of islands. My Island has a volcano and I wanted to make a cake version. It was Easter and I had given up sweets for lent so I wanted to make up for that. If you want to make a chocolate mud cupcake volcano covered in sweets then this recipe will show you how. It’s Easter have some fun!

JBrutton27 @cook_22053726

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Ingredients

Cake
1/2 cupvegetable oil
1 tbsplemon juice
1 cupmilk
2 cupsflour
1 cupwhite sugar
1 cupinstant coffee
3 tspbaking powder
2eggs
100 gramsdark cooking chocolate
1/2 cupcocoa powder
Icing
2-3 cupsicing sugar
1/4 cupmargarine
2 cupscream
Piñata
3 packetsM&M’s
Decorating
3 packetsbear yo-yo’s
1 packetfizzy strawberry laces
1 packetmalteasers
1 packetcrunchie rocks
1 barbounty
1 packetStrawberry laces
1 packetwispa bites

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Steps

1

Preheat oven to 180 degrees
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Put coffee, chocolate and oil into microwave bowl for 2 minutes then stir
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In the meantime mix cocoa, flour, sugar and baking powder in a separate bowl
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Mix milk and lemon juice and leave to sour
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Mix sour milk, eggs and chocolate mixture until smooth
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Mix dry mixture and wet mixture until smooth use blender if needed
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Put into 18 cupcake cases
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Cook for 30 minutes
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After time is over check that they are cooked and leave to cool for twenty to forty minutes
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Put the icing sugar, margarine and cream into one bowl and mix until smooth
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Leave in the fridge or freezer to thicken
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Ice a thick layer on the cupcakes
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Sort the M&M’s into two bowls one for your lava colours and one for any others
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Stack your cupcakes in whatever order you want but keep your M&M’s in the middle
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Decorate with sweets