Monday 28 March 2011

Dinosaur Cake

Ben was 3 on Saturday, and Cathy made a very good cake. It was a genius dinosaur, green with blue M&M spots with white Maltesers for claws and teeth, and all made from a little round cake which I noticed only used half the butter and eggs of a regular cake.... handy for low fat treats, and handy when the hens are on strike and handy for when one forgets to put butter on the shopping list...
So, she forgot her recipe book (my fault as I wanted the recipe), and now she might need it for Joe's cake next Saturday, and the book is too big to scan and I won't lose this recipe if I blog it, so here goes.

A Rich Chocolate Cake from DK

Set the oven to 180C. Line a 22cm round tin with non stick baking parchment.

Lemon juice, 1 tbsp
Milk, 250ml

Stir lemon juice into the milk.

Butter, 4oz
Sugar, 4.5oz
Eggs, 2

Cream the butter and sugar together in a mixing bowl until pale and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time.

Flour, plain, 8oz
Cocoa powder, 2oz
Bicarbonate of Soda, 1 tsp

Sift the dry ingredients together. Beat in half the dry ingredients and half the milk. Add the rest of the milk and then the rest of the flour, mix until smooth. Pour the mixture into the cake tin and bake it for one hour. Then tip the cake out of the tin and leave it on a wire rack to cool.

Butter Icing

Butter, 4oz
Icing Sugar, 8oz
Colouring, if you like that sort of thing

Chocolate Icing

Butter, 2oz
Icing Sugar, 3.5oz
Cocoa Powder, 2 tbsp


Did a birthday party of 14, with some left over for coffee on Sunday and a few pieces to take to school!