Vanilla Icing Cake with Retro Sweets
Total Time: 1 Hour
30 Minutes
Servings: 12
Discover our appetising Betty Crocker™ vanilla cake topped with vanilla icing and covered in assorted retro sweets.
All You Need Is ...
Cake
- 1 box Betty Crocker™ Velvety Vanilla Cake Mix
- 90 ml vegetable oil
- 180 ml water
- 3 medium free range eggs
Topping
- 1.5 tubs Betty Crocker™ Vanilla Icing
- Selection of sweets (we used liquorice all sorts, dolly mixtures, flying saucers, rainbow chocolates, liquorice wheels, milk bottles, cola bottles)
Betty's Easy Steps
- Preheat the oven to 180C, 160C fan, gas 4.
- Mix the eggs, oil, water and cake mix gently together and whisk (by hand or electric mixer) for 2-3 minutes until smooth and creamy.
- Mix the eggs, oil, water and cake mix gently together and whisk (by hand or electric mixer) for 2-3 minutes until smooth and creamy.
- Bake in the centre of the oven for 22-25 minutes or until a rounded knife inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean, then cool on a wire rack.
- Spread half a pot of the vanilla icing onto the top of one of the cakes. Place the other cake on top and sandwich together. Spread the remaining icing over the top and down the sides, fully covering the cake. Smooth round the sides and tops.
- Stick the sweets onto the top of the cake. Cut into slices and serve with a selection of the sweets!
Betty's Tips
- You can use any sweets or chocolates you prefer.
