princess belle cake

hey so it was my baby brother and sisters birthday in February and i took pictures of their cake that i made and have just looked through all my cake pictures and found them so here is my baby sisters princess cake:

excuse the silly face, she was excited!!

ingredients:

6 ounces of self raising flour

16 ounces of butter

16 ounces of caster sugar

8 large eggs

2 tsp of vanilla essence

a tsp of baking powder

2 tbsp of water

6-7 tbsp of cocoa powder(if you want but you need to take 6-7 tbsp of flour out)

decoration:

500g of icing sugar

250g butter

2 tbsp of vanilla essence

yellow gel colours

yellow edible glitter

1kg pack of white regal icing

princess belle cake topper 

method:

1.preheat your oven to 190°c and line your tin/mould with grease proof paper or butter or even the 1 calorie butter spray(i use this for my cakes and the cakes pop out after a couple of minutes)

2. mix the butter and sugar together until it feels smooth

3 one by one crack the eggs and add them into the mixture. Mix it for a couple of minutes during this add your water and vanilla essence

4. after add in the flour baking powder and cocoa powder (if you want) mix it until it is light and fluffy

5. after it has been well mixed together and is light and fluffy you can start pouring the mixture into the tins/moulds make sure they are leveled out

6. put the cakes in for around 20-25 mins you should be able to put a knife /skewer through the middles of the cakes when you take the knife/skewer out they should be clean

7. leave the cakes to cool for around an hour after that cut a tall dome shape

8. whilst the cake cools make the buttercream using the recipe that i have put up in one of my other posts

9. spread a thin layer of buttercream all over the cake and put the cake in a cool room or the fridge

10. colour the regal icing with the yellow GEL colour and roll it out big enough to cover the cake

11. leave a small hole at the top of the cake to put the topper in and decorate around the topper to blend it in with the cake

12. with the edible glitter use a new soft paint brush and brush some of it on all over the cake to give it a bit of a sparkle, dont wash the brush after it has been used just clean it with tissue

i hope this helps and enjoy!!