eid cake

So today I'm going to post a cake recipe. I made a cake for eid a couple of months ago. I made a chocolate cake with chocolate fingers around the cake.

ingredients:

10 ounces of butter

10 ounces of sugar

10 ounces of flour

5 eggs

1/2 a tsp of baking powder

2-3 tbsp of water

3 tbsp of cocoa powder

decoration-

 6 boxes of fingers

sugar paste(optional to cut letters out)

gel colours

a pack of regal icing

chocolate butter cream

raspberry jam

method:

1.       cream butter and sugar together and then add eggs one by one and add the water and whisk

2.       add the flour and baking powder and fold it in

3.       separate into 3 tins or 2 high ones and put them in a preheated oven at 180 degrees c

4.       once you have checked the cakes with a knife or a skewer and they have come out clean take the cakes out and leave them to cool

5.       once they have been cooled spread raspberry jam along the bottom layer of the cake and place the top layer on  top

6.       spread the top of the cake and on the side with chocolate butter cream and cut a circle big enough to cover the top of the cake of regal icing

7.       after that I stuck the chocolate fingers around the cake (my cake was too high for the finger so I had to stick one and half on around the cake)

8.       I coloured a few balls of sugar paste with the gel colours I then rolled them out onto a surface sprinkled with icing sugar. You have to roll them out really thin [oh by the way you also have to buy this special rolling pin well u don't HAVE to but it will work better you can buy it from Amazon  

 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/23cm-Rolling-Pin-Stick-Polyethylene/dp/B000VJS2NC/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1354652161&sr=8-4)]

9.       you can also by this letter cutter which you cut out letters/numbers out (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Swift-Tinplate-Alphabet-Cookie-Cutters/dp/B0000BVFS4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354652401&sr=8-1)

10.   I used some left over regal icing to make some quick roses you need to make a cone then make 9 flat circles which will wrap around the cone

11.   with the first flat circle cover the full cone and then wrap around three more but bend the tips of them backwards so it loks like the rose is opening up

12.   then get the other five and do the same take the excess off from the bottom of the rose

13.   use a toothpick to stick them into the cake and choose a thin ribbon and wrap around the cake

HAVE FUN!

cake pops

so when i made my auntie and uncles cake i cut the sides o the cake and i didnt want to waste them so i made cake pops! So a tip for when you make a cake next time, make cake pops from the scraps or put them in a bag and freeze them for when you have more cake scraps or when ur in the mood for making them. If you want to make it from the beginning you need to make 6 ounces of cake mixture and this should make around 15 cake pops. I used one of the red square moulds.

(there are 9 here but some were eaten before i took the picture)

 

if you cant remember how to make a 6 ounce cake here is what you need to do:

ingredients:

6 ounces butter

6 ounces sugar

6 ounces self raising flour

3 eggs

1-2 tbsp water

1/4 tsp of baking powder

decorations:

lollipop sticks

chocolate or 2 bags of candy melts

sprinkles

icing

method:

1. cream butter and sugar together then crack the eggs one by one and add in the water. whisk it all together

2. fold in the flour and baking powder

3.once it is done pour the mixture into the mould/tin and bake it into the preheated oven at 180 °c

4. to check whether it is done insert a skewer/knife and it should come out clean

let it cool down then break it apart and out it into a bowl then crumble it up into cake crumbs and add 3 spoonfulls of frosting then mix it together so it sticks(add more if needed)

5. roll them into balls and put them onto parchment paper or greaseproof paper

6. once you have put them onto the paper put them into the freezer for 10 minute or the fridge for 30-40 minutes

7. after you have taken them out melt a bit of chocolate, for some colourful cake pops you could use candymelts(if your from the uk you could get it from hobbycraft but if ur from the us i think you can get from the wallmart store im not sure as im from uk)

8. dip the end of a lolly pop stick into the melted chocolate and place it onto the centre of the cake pop and do it to the rest of them then put it into the freezer or fridge

9. once you have taken them out melt some more of the candy melts so you will be able to cover the cake pops

10. dip the cake pops into the chocolate and stick them into a polystyrene block whilst they are still wet you could put some sprinkle on or once they have dried you could do some designs on them with icing

11.if you didnt want to use sticks or u dont have any you can dip them in chocolate and then out it in cases once they have dried





"jaffa cake" cake

heyy guys! Mehtaab here so today i decided i would post something different. A 'jaffa cake' cake. I made this for one of my uncles as he loves jaffa cakes and he wanted a plain sponge cake. So for this cake i made about 15 ounces of cake mixture. i used three tins/moulds. This cake was a plain sponge cake and everyone liked it.

these are the two cake moulds i used for the base i used a smaller tin for the jaffa cake

ingredients:

16 ounces of butter

16 ounces of sugar

16 ounces of self raising flour

8 eggs

3-4 table spoons of water

1 tsp of baking powder

apricot jam

 2 packs of chocolate

orange jelly mix(but I used mango because I couldn't find orange)

 orange matchmakers

10 pods of mini Jaffa cakes

I bought some vanilla butter cream but you could also make your own

method:

1.       first of all cream your butter and sugar together then add your eggs one by one add your water in this step and whisk together

2.       after that add your flour and baking powder and fold it in

3.       once you have mixed it separate the mixture into the 3 moulds/tins and put it in the preheated oven, at 180 degrees c

4.       whilst waiting for the cake to be made make your jelly

5.       after about half an hour insert a knife or a skewer and it should come out clear

6.       take the cakes out and leave them to cool once they have been cooled spread the jam onto the bottom layer of the cake and then place the top cake on and spread the butter cream across the side of the cake and the top

7.       on the small cake you made tip the jelly onto the cake and melt the chocolate

8.       once the chocolate is melted keep mixing it but let it cool down otherwise when you put the chocolate on the jelly it will come off

9.       spread the chocolate over the jelly and carve in a knots and crosses grid

10.   place the Jaffa cake onto the main cake

11.   place the mini Jaffa cakes along the side of the cake and crush the matchmakers or break them into small pieces and sprinkle them around the Jaffa cake

12.   to finish it off you could place 3 Jaffa cakes on the big Jaffa cake