Sweet Surprise: How to Make a Candy-Filled Piñata Cake

Celebrating a special occasion? Delight the guest of honor—and anyone else with a sweet tooth—with a candy-filled piñata cake!

If you love the excitement that a traditional piñata brings to a party, you’ll definitely have fun with this layer cake’s surprise candy center. (And you won’t even need a stick to retrieve the tasty treats!)

Piñata cakes are all about the assembly. Essentially, a layer cake is hollowed out to create a space that you can fill with candies, sprinkles and other goodies—goodies that will spill out into a colorful display as soon as you slice into the cake.

Ready see a whole lot of smiles?

Grab a bag of your favorite tiny sweets, then check out this candy-filled piñata cake tutorial that Nicole Weston from Baking Bites shared on Craftsy.