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!