Surprise piñata football cake - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 200g unsalted butter
• 200g soft light brown sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 150g self-raising flour
• 50g cocoa powder, sieved
• 1 tbsp milk
• 200g caster sugar
• 200g self-raising flour
• ½ tsp peppermint extract
• about ½ to 1 tsp green food colouring paste
• 150g unsalted butter, softened
• 300g icing sugar, sieved
• 300g chocolate balls or foil-covered chocolate footballs (available online)
• 4 tbsp sieved apricot jam, warmed
• 500g green ready-to-roll icing
• 350g white ready-to-roll icing
• 100g black ready-to-roll icing
• a little food colouring paste, choose team colours
• novelty candles, optional