This week I am enjoying blogging as Pickle-Lily is away at Guide Camp and they have set up a blog for families to follow. I checked it to see if they had got there safely - they had, of course , and I'm enjoying the pictures and reading the girls posts. I am not a worrying mum, P has been to camp on many occasions and I know she will be safe, happy and well cared for, but it's good to see her enjoying herself, and have an idea of what she may be talking about on her return!
I also used a blog to create Mr P-L's birthday cake last week.
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| Happy Birthday! |
You need - for the chocolate cake
250g caster sugar
250g soft margarine
4 eggs
2 tablespoons of milk
260g self-raising flour
40g cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
To make
1. Cream the margarine and sugar together until light and fluffy.
2. Mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder in alternate batches with the eggs and milk.
This means I stir in about quarter of the dry ingredients then an egg, then another quarter, then another egg and so on until it's all mixed together.
3. Put in a lined 8" cake tin and bake at 140C (Fan) for about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
4. Cool.
To decorate
Pickle-Lily then mixed up a batch of chocolate butter cream, I can't give you the ingredients as she does this by taste, to spread on the top and side. We thought the Crafty Ribbons idea of kit-kats were better for an adult, so it took 18 of the two fingered kit-kats to go round the cake and four tubes of smarties on top. All held together with a ribbon we found.
I'm hoping I'm not too late to join in Handmade Monday - then it is just the case of throwing teenage son off the computer to visit the other blogs!
12 comments:
I am so going to have to make one of those cakes. It looks like chocolate heaven. Thanks for sharing.
Ali x
If I had a cake like that I think I'd be in heaven - it looks delicious
Oooohhhh, it looks gorgeous. All those lovely chocolate Smarties - yum, yum. Hope you have a good week.
What a very civilised camp they must be at - electricity?
That cake looks .....amazing. ;)
Looks a yummy cake ...
Cake looks great - what a fab idea to stick kit-kats round the sides! x
The cake looks delicious. I'm not sure those kit-kats would have lasted long enough to make it to the cake if I made it.
I made one of those last year - never seen a cake vanish so quickly!
She will have great time jo and have so many lovely stories to share with you when she comes home. Loving the cake I may have to try that idea. Enjoy your time, hugs dee xx
Yum Yum !!!!
Oh, I can never resist a chocolate cake! Enjoyed reading your blog - so interesting.
Oh. My. Godness. That cake! I LOVE it!
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