Learn how to make a rainbow explosion cake or piñata cake, it will be a great colorful surprise for any party!
Warner Bros. sent us a kit to make this cake to celebrate Tom and Jerry the movie release in theaters and HBO max on. Video at the end.
An eye-popping blend of classic animation and live-action, Tom and Jerry’s new adventure stakes new ground for the iconic characters and forces them to do the unthinkable… work together to save the day.
So I started making this rainbow explosion cake or piñata cake before the snowstorm. It worked to surprise my oldest son who’s birthday was during the storm as I mentioned in my Instagram post. That’s why pictures are a little bit dark.
For this cake, you would need several layers, at least 4 but I made 6 of them. I backed by batches, as I only have two same-size cake molds.
If you are the same as me, you can prepare the whole cake mix and refrigerate between baking the batches.
I was sent a Williams Sonoma rainbow explosion cake kit that already included all the ingredients and recipes so that was easier. I highly recommend this kit because it has most of the ingredients and instructions to make this cake. It’s so easy!
Anyway, I will share how to make an Explosion Cake or Piñata cake using a boxed cake mix. (inspired by the rainbow explosion kit of Williams Sonoma)
How to make a rainbow Explosion Cake or Piñata cake
Ingredients
- 2 boxed cake mix (including ingredients in the back of the box for preparing it)
- 6 food coloring gel, different color
- 6 small cake pans same size (6”)
- Spray oil
- Round cookie cutter (2”)
- Cake plate or cake cardboard
- 2 cans of vanilla ready-to-spread frosting
- 2 cups regular colored Sprinkles
- 3 cups colored sprinkles different shapes to fill the cake.
For the cakes
Follow boxed cake mix instructions and prepare the batter for the cakes.
Divide the cake batter evenly into six parts, using bowls. You can use a ¾ cup measure spoon.
Color each batter bowl with a few drops of your preferred food coloring gel. I used pink, blue, purple, orange, green, and yellow. Separate.
Grease six cake pans with spray oil.
Preheat the oven to 350F.
Pour each bowl of colored cake mix in each cake pan. They will be less than half full.
Bake the cakes for about 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the cakes comes out clean.
Take out the cakes from the oven and let them cool in a wire rack for about ten minutes.
After this time, take out the cakes from the cake pans and separate them.
Build the rainbow explosion cake or piñata cake
Set apart one of the cakes (Pink), it will be the top layer with no hole.
Using the cookie cutter cut out a circle from the center in all remaining cakes. Separate.
Spread some frosting in the center of the cake plate forming a ring about the same size as the cakes, to avoid the cake sliding. Place one of the cakes with the cut out over the frosting ring.
Cover the cake with an even layer of frosting, except the hole.
Repeat with the remaining cakes (except the pink top layer cake), covering each layer with frosting. After this, pour the explosion sprinkles into the hole, until filled. Spread some frosting over the last layer (except the hole) and cover with the pink top layer cake.
Frosting the explosion cake or piñata cake
Using a spatula or knife, apply a very thin even layer of ready-to-spread-frosting to the top and sides of the cake.
Refrigerate for twenty minutes to firm up the frosting. After this time, use a spatula or knife to cover the cake evenly with the remaining frosting.
Decorate the explosion cake or piñata cake with the remaining colored sprinkles.
I hope you enjoy your rainbow explosion cake or piñata cake!
Don’t forget to watch Tom and Jerry Movie on theaters and HBO Max!
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Tom and Jerry (2021) Synopsis
One of the most beloved rivalries in history is reignited when Jerry moves into New York City’s finest hotel on the eve of “the wedding of the century,” forcing the event’s desperate planner to hire Tom to get rid of him, in director Tim Story’s “Tom and Jerry.”
The ensuing cat and mouse battle threatens to destroy her career, the wedding, and possibly the hotel itself. But soon, an even bigger problem arises: a diabolically ambitious staffer conspiring against all three of them.
“Tom and Jerry” star Chloë Grace Moretz (“Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising,” “The Addams Family”), Michael Peña (“Cesar Chavez,” “American Hustle,” “Ant-Man”), Colin Jost (“How to be Single,” “Saturday Night Live”), Rob Delaney (“Deadpool 2,” “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw”), Pallavi Sharda (“Lion”), Jordan Bolger (“Peaky Blinders”), Patsy Ferran (“Darkest Hour”), Nicky Jam (TV’s “Nicky Jam: El Ganador”), Bobby Cannavale (“The Irishman,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp”), Lil Rel Howery (upcoming “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “The Angry Birds Movie 2”), and Ken Jeong (“Crazy Rich Asians,” “The Hangover,” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”).
The film is directed by Tim Story (“Fantastic Four,” “Think Like a Man,” “Barbershop”) and produced by Chris DeFaria (“The LEGO Movie 2,” “Ready Player One,” “Gravity”).
It is written by Kevin Costello, based on characters created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Serving as executive producers are Tim Story, Adam Goodman, Steven Harding, Sam Register, Jesse Ehrman, and Allison Abbate. The creative filmmaking team includes director of photography Alan Stewart, production designer James Hambidge, editor Peter S. Elliot, and costume designer Alison McCosh. The music is composed by Christopher Lennertz.
A Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Animation Group presentation, a Tim Story Film, “Tom and Jerry” is slated for release in theaters nationwide on February 26, 2021, and will be available in the U.S. on HBO Max for 31 days from the theatrical release. The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
The film is rated PG for cartoon violence, rude humor, and brief language.
How to make an explosion cake or piñata cake
Equipo
- Stand mixer
Ingredients
- 2 boxed cake mix including ingredients in the back of the box for preparing it
- 6 food coloring gel different color
- 6 small cake pans same size 6”
- Spray oil
- Round cookie cutter 2”
- Cake plate or cake cardboard
- 2 cans of vanilla ready-to-spread frosting
- 2 cups regular colored Sprinkles
- 3 cups colored sprinkles different shapes to fill the cake.
Instructions
FOR THE CAKES
- Follow boxed cake mix instructions and prepare the batter for the cakes.
- Divide the cake batter evenly into six parts, using bowls. You can use a ¾ cup measure spoon.
- Color each batter bowl with a few drops of your preferred food coloring gel. I used pink, blue, purple, orange, green, and yellow. Separate.
- Grease six cake pans with spray oil.
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Pour each bowl of colored cake mix in each cake pan. They will be less than half full.
- Bake the cakes for about 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the cakes comes out clean.
- Take out the cakes from the oven and let them cool in a wire rack for about ten minutes.
- After this time, take out the cakes from the cake pans and separate them.
BUILD THE RAINBOW EXPLOSION CAKE OR PIÑATA CAKE
- Set apart one of the cakes (Pink), it will be the top layer with no hole.
- Using the cookie cutter cut out a circle from the center in all remaining cakes. Separate.
- Spread some frosting in the center of the cake plate forming a ring about the same size as the cakes, to avoid the cake sliding. Place one of the cakes with the cut out over the frosting ring.
- Cover the cake with an even layer of frosting, except the hole.
- Repeat with the remaining cakes (except the pink top layer cake), covering each layer with frosting. After this, pour the explosion sprinkles into the hole, until filled. Spread some frosting over the last layer (except the hole) and cover with the pink top layer cake.
FROSTING THE EXPLOSION CAKE OR PIÑATA CAKE
- Using a spatula or knife, apply a very thin even layer of ready-to-spread-frosting to the top and sides of the cake.
- Refrigerate for twenty minutes to firm up the frosting. After this time, use a spatula or knife to cover the cake evenly with the remaining frosting.
- Decorate the explosion cake or piñata cake with the remaining colored sprinkles.
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