this is(was) a family secret recipe about to be released. Well when i say family, i mean the females of the family.it’s the best cake ever (in my opinion) so here goes:
Ingredients:
- 4 oz of self-raising flour (110g)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 4 oz soft butter (110g)
- 4 oz of caster sugar (110g)
- 2 large eggs
- 4-5 drops of vanilla essence
- artificial colouring (green, red, yellow, purple, whichever you want!)
- to finish: butter and icing sugar. the amounts depend on how much icing you will want on your cake.
pre-heat the oven at 170°C –>325F° (less if you are using a fan oven)and gas mark 3 if you are using a gas oven
you will also need two baking tins, not too shallow-4 or 5 cm should do the trick, and not too big either. grease them lightly and line them with greasproof paper (also greased) or silicone paper.
Take a roomy mixing bowl and add flour and baking powder- you can sift it if lumpy.
Then just add all other ingredients to the bowl, and whisk them, preferably with an electronic hand whisk-or, if you’re in a hurry or feeling a bit lazy, dump the stuff into a magimix and mix it thoroughly.Check that it’s not too thick: put some on a spoon and tap the side of a bowl with it.If it does not drop of easily, add 1 or 2 teaspoons of warmish water and mix again.
Then,divide the mix into the number of bowls you need, depending on how many colours you have (usually from about two to five) and in each bowl add a few drops of clouring. Mix thouroughly until the mix looks bright enouph, then dolop it out into the prepared tins. You can make it stripy, spotty, sploggy….
Bake for about half an hour, but check at regular intervals and make any needed adjustments to the time or temperature.
When cooked, leave them for about 30 seconds, then slide a knife around the edges and ease them out. Put them onto a rack and leave them to cool.
While they are cooling, prepare the icing: you don’t need to do this- if you prefer jam, it works just as well.
So, take a clump of butter and cut it up.Add lots of icing sugar and mix together. Just taste to decide the amounts- it’s always fun! You can also add colouring to that as well, it won’t change the texture too much-but it might be fun to make it electric inside at white and innocent on the outside.Cut it and watch the expressions of others!
So anyway, when the cakes are completely cool, put the icing smoothly on and sandwich them together.Decorate them in any way and then they’re ready to eat!
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Bonne app’!