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Hungry Caterpillar Cake

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Do you know someone who loves the Hungry Caterpillar? Why not make this cake for their birthday? This Hungry Caterpillar Cake is so tasty, fun to make and over a meter long. Perfect for any party!


This cake has 23 segments, you can split these in half to serve 46 people at least.


If this cake was stretched out, with no curves, it would reach over 2 meters long. I had to make a special cake board out of wood for this cake to go on.


This cake was created when I was supposed to be making my brothers giant caterpilla cake. Unfortunately my first attemp at that cake didn't go right and the cake fell apart.


I couldn't leave the cake unused so decided I was going to make cake balls, there was so much cake I would have made hundreds of cake balls.

My daughter loves the hungry caterpillar, we have to read the book many times in a day, so the idea sort of came to me.


The colours don't quite match the colours on the book, which I would have liked, but I am very impressed with how it came out and I think it would be the perfect for a birthday party.

I made chocolate and vanilla cakes and crumbled them together with velvet vanilla butter icing.


You can of course make all chocolate or all vanilla and use whatever flavour buttericing you love.

I used the book to help me create the shape of the caterpillar.


I then covered the cake, individually, with buttericing and fondant.

I hope you love this cake as much as we do!


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Marisa

Hungry Caterpillar Cake - Serves at least 46


Ingredients


10 â…” Cup Self Raising Flour

4 tbsp Cocoa Powder

8 Cup Caster Sugar

8 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda

8 Cup Milk - I use Oat milk but any plant based milk will work.

16 tsp Vanilla Essence

2 â…” Cup Vegetable Oil

8 tbsp Cider Vinegar


440g Butter

1kg Velvet Vanilla Icing Sugar - Sugar and Crumbs

3-4 tsp Vanilla Essence

Drop of milk


Red, Green, White Fondant.

Green, Yellow, Blue & Purple Food Colouring

A few Vegan Milk Bottles. - I got these from Tescos


Method


Cake;


Preheat the oven 180C and prepare your baking trays. I did 2 cakes at a time, you need a total of 16.


In a large bowl sift the flour, caster sugar and bicarbonate of soda. Mix to combine.


Pour in the milk, vanilla, oil and vinegar. Mix until you have a completely smooth batter.


Split the batter in two and add your cocoa powder.


Spread the mixes between your cake trays.


Cover your trays with foil.


Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.


Let the cake cool completely.


Buttercream;


Place the butter and vanilla in a large bowl. Mix until combined and butter is slightly softened.


Sift in the butter icing


Mix until you have a thick buttercream


You can add a little milk if too thick.


Place in the fridge until needed.


Decorating;


Crumble the cake into a large bowl. I had to use two.


Add ¾ of the buttercream into the cake and mix until you have a sticky mixture.


Use your hands to create balls of cake. I used the picture of the caterpillar from the book to help shape it right.


Cover the balls with the leftover buttercream and smooth it out.


Roll the red fondant to cover the caterpillar head.


Use a little of the white fondant and colour some blue and some purple. Place them together and roll out to create the anteni. I tried to stick to the book colours and shapes. Use a toothpick to keep them in place.


Colour a little of the white yellow and add some green on top, roll out a little to create the eyes.


Use a little green fondant to create the nose.


Colour the white fondant different shades of green


Roll the different greens out to cover all the balls of cake.


Place them together and add the milk bottles for feet.


Store in a cool place, covered in cling film, until ready to serve


Serve


Enjoy!


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