Double Shape Cake
You Will Need:
• 200g butter
• 200g caster sugar
• 200g self raising flour
• 4 eggs
• In a bowl, cream together the butter and caster sugar.
• Then into the butter and sugar, mix 4 lightly beaten eggs and the flour.
• Give it all a good mix until it looks like this!
• Divide the mixture equally into two.
• This will be for the two different cake colours.
• Choose any colours you like. Use a teaspoon of food colouring paste - this will give the cake a good strong colour.
• You can buy food colouring paste in any catering or cake decorating shop.
• Mix it well so that the colour spreads evenly.
• Next, grease and flour two 20cm cake tins.
• Do this by wiping some butter around them and then sprinkling some flour into them.
• Dollop the mixture into the tins.
• Cook the cakes at 180c or Gas Mark 4 for about 20 minutes - until they're springy to the touch!
• Once the cakes are cooked and cooled down you can cut out the circles.
• To make the circles, the best things to use are different size pastry cutters.
• If you don't have any pastry cutters, you can make some card circle templates.
• Simply put a template onto the cake and cut round.
• The first cutter Stephen used is 15cm wide.
• Put it on the cake and make sure there's an even space all the way around the cutter and the edge of the cake.
• Then cut the cake with a smaller circle - this one is 10cm.
• Use a final cutter of 5cm to cut a small circle in the middle.
• Then do the exact same on the other cake.
• Slot the circles of cake together like this alternating the colours as you go.
• Spread some butter icing made from butter and icing sugar over one layer of the cake.
• You could use jam if you want to.
• Then carefully sandwich the other cake on top.
• Use your favorite colour to make the cake.
• Enjoy!
