Birthday Cake

To make this birthday cake i adapted the recipie for Chocolate Fudge Cup Cakes (see earlier post) to make one big cake with the butter icing in the middle and all purpose choc icing to cover the entire cake

So for the Cake :

140g soft butter

140g golden caster sugar

100g self raising

3 eggs

25g cocoa powder

Butter Icing:

85g milk or dark choc

85g butter

140 icing sugar

All Purpose Choc Icing

125g milk or dark choc

75g butter

2 eggs beaten

500g icing sugar

1tsp vanilla extract

Put all the cake mixture into mixing bowl and beat for couple of mins with electric whisk. Divide between 2 greased and lined sandwich tins and bake at 190 for approx 15-20 mins check as you go. Once out of the oven leave to cool in the tins then remove to wire rack. Make up the butter icing by beating icing sugar and butter until creamy, melt the choc in the microwave and beat in. Then spread over one of the cakes and sandwich together.

Make up the all purpose icing to cover the entire cake with. Melt the choc and butter in the microwave. Beat in the eggs whilst choc hot then add the vanilla extract and sifted icing sugar. Mix briskly until smooth leave to cool a little so not too runny and then spoon and spread over entire cake. This is messy so put down some newspaper and sit the cake on a wire rack. Once iced I then decorated with smartied and milk and white chocolate buttons as this was a kids birthday cake (though tbh would have done the same no matter who)