BIRTHDAY BUG CAKE
Children will love the butterfly and ladybird decorations on this colourful cake - and you'll love its simplicity
Provided by Jane Hornby
Categories Afternoon tea, Treat
Time 2h10m
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Bake the Easy vanilla cake in a greased, lined deep 20cm cake tin as in the basic recipe; drench with syrup and leave to cool. Leave the oven on.
- Break the white chocolate into cubes into a microwaveable bowl, and heat on High for 1 min (or melt over a pan of simmering water). Stir, then leave any remaining lumps to melt in the warm liquid chocolate. Once just-warm, beat the chocolate into the buttercream.
- Start the butterflies. Put the whole giant buttons on a flat baking tray on non-stick baking paper, then put into the oven for 20-30 secs or until the chocolate looks shiny. Take out, scatter with hundreds and thousands, then leave to set completely before cutting in half with a large non-serrated knife. For the ladybirds, pipe dots of icing all over the already cut giant button halves, then leave aside to dry.
- Spread the buttercream over the cake, then start to arrange the butterflies. Cut each Matchmaker into 3 - these will make the bodies. Press onto the cake, then stick four giant button halves around each body to make 'wings'. For the ladybirds, place two spotty button halves together, then use a small button for the head. Scatter more hundreds and thousands all over the cake, then poke in the candles.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 536 calories, Fat 30 grams fat, SaturatedFat 18 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 64 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 47 grams sugar, Fiber 1 grams fiber, Protein 7 grams protein, Sodium 0.28 milligram of sodium
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