Pig Cake

Crafting a little piggy cake couldn't be easier. Simply bake your favorite cake recipe in our Animal Crackers Pan and create the porcine countenance with smoothed and piped buttercream icing.

AmountCake serves 12.

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

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Prepare Icing
We suggest that you tint all icings at one time while cake cools. Refrigerate tinted icings in covered containers until ready to use.
Make 3 cups buttercream icing:
Tint 1/4 cup black
Tint 1/4 cup dark rose (thin with 1 teaspoon light corn syrup)
Tint 2 1/2 cups rose
Decorate in Order
Ice inside of ears smooth with thinned dark rose.
Build up ears to a point with spatula and rose icing.
Use 3 and black icing to pipe-in nostrils and inside of mouth (smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch).
Use tip 6 and black icing to pipe-in eyes (smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch).
Use tip 16 and rose icing to cover head and ears with stars.
Baking Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F or temperature per recipe directions. Your cake will unmold easily, without sticking, when you prepare the pan properly. Grease the inside of pan using a pastry brush and solid vegetable shortening (do not use butter, margarine or liquid vegetable oil). Spread the shortening so that all indentations are covered. Sprinkle about 2 Tablespoons flour inside pan and shake so that flour covers all greased surfaces.
Turn pan upside down and tap lightly to remove excess flour. If any shiny spots remain, touch up with more shortening and flour to prevent cake from sticking. (You can use vegetable oil pan spray or vegetable oil pan spray with flour, in place of solid shortening and flour or use Wilton Cake Release, for perfect, crumb-free cakes!).
Make one 2-layer cake mix according to package or recipe directions. Pour the cake batter into pan, and if necessary, spread the batter around with a spatula to fill all areas of the pan evenly. Be careful not to touch sides or bottom of pan.
Bake cake on middle rack of 350°F oven for 30-40 minutes or until cake tests done according to recipe directions.
Remove cake from oven and cool on cake rack for 10 minutes. While the cake is still in the pan, carefully slice off the raised center portion of the cake. This allows the cake to sit more level and helps prevent cracking.
To remove cake from pan, place cooling rack against cake and turn both cake rack and pan over. Lift pan off carefully. Cool cake at least one hour. Brush loose crumbs off cake.
To transfer cake to serving board, hold a cake board against cake and turn both cake and rack over. Lift off rack. Hold another board against bottom of cake and turn cake over. Be sure to hold cake, rack and board close together while turning to prevent cake from cracking.