Inside Out Cake
An Inside Out cake, inspired by the Disney Pixar movie that is easy to make and has all the characters on the outside and a surprise on the inside too. Who was your favourite character in the movie? I liked Joy’s fun-loving nature and that she wanted to make every memory good. Impossible maybe, but a great goal nevertheless.
For the Inside Out Cake you will need
1 1/2 quantities of my perfect vanilla sponge cake recipe (video and recipe are here).
Food colouring (red, blue, orange, green, pink)
2 quantities of buttercream in your choice of flavour, coloured purple.
440g (15.52 ounces) gum balls
1 roll grape bubble gum tape
white luster dust
inside out figurines
70g (2.47 ounces) white fondant
2 cake pop sticks
edible food markers and sprinkles/small edible decorations for the console
Make the half batch of the sponge cake recipe first – this will give you one round 8″ cake. Once it is baked and cooled, crumble that up using your hands or a food processor.
Then make the other 1 quantity of the sponge cake recipe. Grab four bowls and put 1 cup of cake crumbs into each one. Then add half a cup of the cake batter and stir it through until you get a thick paste that can hold it’s own shape.
Add colour to each bowl. Blue for sadness, green for disgust, orange or yellow for joy and red for anger.
Then take the remaining cake batter and fold through some pink and blue food colour to make purple.
Add a scoop of the purple batter to the bottom of three lined 20cm (7.87 inches) or 8″ cake tins. Put the coloured mixture into a piping bag fitted with a large round piping tip and pipe circles into the cake. See the video for demonstration.
Add the rest of the purple cake batter over the top. Bake in the oven until they are cooked. Then let them cool and level off the tops.
Layer and cover the cake using purple buttercream.
Place the gumballs into a bag with some white luster, shake and rub the bag until all the gumballs have a fine coat of luster dust so they shimmer like the memories in the movie.
Decorate the sides of the cake using the gumballs and bubble gum tape. Then make the console as demonstrated in the video. Add the console and the characters to the cake. Then take a photo with the birthday boy or girl before the party guests arrive.
Bonus video for you this week: How to carve anger out of a watermelon. You can use this to dress up your party table.
by Ann Reardon How To Cook That
2015
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Omg made this cake for my daughters bachelor college graduation as a psych degree. I am making the console just had a place for it on the cake and going to put a few fluffs of cotton candy for bing bong thank you for such a great idea
fantastic job Kim 🙂
That was so good I love baking like u
Another pic.
Inside Out cake I made this morning. My daughter didn’t want purple frosting because it represents Fear so we have yellow frosting for Joy.
Great job Kris! We love the trail of memory spheres onto the board too.
Can this cake be assembled 24 hours in advance or will the bubble tape get soggy & the gum balls bleed?
Hi kris, I have seen the pics of your finished cake so I am guessing you were able to resolve this.
Hi Ann
Love this recipe for the sponge cake just wondering I’m planning to try your 3D Thomas tank engine cake just wondering if your sponge cake recipe would work instead of the chocolate cake u recommend in ur recipe. Does it still need simple syrup and is it strong enough to hold up fondant
Wow it was a nice cake
hi Ann, I’m new here and I was wondering can you make a big tinker bell for my birthday next year march 20 ,2006 please and just send it at my house here is how I want you to make it: 1 big chocolate cake with chocolate icing and for my decorations I want a the middle I want a tinker bell Christmas light up stick and in side my cake I want chocolate syrup in side that Hershey’s chocolate in side oh almost forgot the sprinkles I want is the Christmas colors the reason I like Christmas is because the word Christ is In it .
Hi jordynweathers, sorry Ann can’t make cakes to order or deliver them internationally.
How many little 7year olds will that glorious cake feed? I’ve never attempted anything so fabulous, terrified of trying but madly in love with the beautiful thing!
Hi Was, it will all depend on how you decide to cut it and how big the serves are. You shold get at least 15 generous serves.
Awesome cake that I made for my son’s 7th ‘Inside Out’ Party, I did the watermelon as well. Such a hit. My only problem was with the cake memory dots in the cake my seemed to turn out like rubber, what did I do wrong. The cake itself was fine and the boys didn’t mind at all.
Hi Tarns, Your cake looks excellent. Well done! There are a couple of things that you could look at if the memory dots in the cake seem rubbery. Rubbery cake, can be caused by overworking the batter or some colours have that effect, especially if you are using a lot of colour.
Thank you for the inspiration!
Hi Anu Chacko, What a brilliant job. Well done!
hi I was wondering what size cake tip was used to make the inside circles?
Hi Jessica, Ann used ateco 806.
Can i use a different kind of cake instead of sponge cake?
Hi,
Just wondering how many eggs to use to make a half batch of sponge mixutre – 3 or 4?
Thanks
Hi Kerry, We would go for 3 large eggs or 4 smaller ones depending what you have at hand to use.
Could you tell me the cake tip size you used to make the circles?
I love the design as usual but when I first saw the cake I thought you made each of the characters. That would’ve been super impressive.
Hi Sedira, That is something Ann could do but for most home bakers it quicker and cheaper to grab some toy toppers when they are so readily available. They double as a great gift for the birthday child afterwards.
Hey there, Ann! I love your videos soo much! I thought of an idea for a video…a snoopy cake!
Hi Louise, Thanks for the suggestion!
Hi anne . I want a minion cake .
Thank you
Hi Robas, If you would like to make a Minion Cake, check out Ann’s tutorial: https://www.howtocookthat.net/public_html/despicable-me-2-3d-minion-cake-decorating-tutorial/
You dont get fondont in india and neitther marshmallow
Hi Aimen, This company supplies both and delivers across India: http://thatsecretingredient.com/fondant/fondants
It is very costly on indian rupees and i am just 12
Hey, I’m new here but I was so wishing that I could have this birthday cake of adventure time and don’t forget flame princess my fav character and if you don’t know what cartoon this is you can search up adventure time and it will give you some ideas. This would be a great help for my birthday thanks