Splodge Cakes
You Will Need:
• 100g butter
• 100g sugar
• 100g sifted self raising flor
• 2 eggs
• cocoa powder
• food colouring
• cake cases
• Cream together 100g of butter and 100g of sugar. You'll also need 100g of sifted self raising flour and 2 eggs. Pop both of those in with the creamed sugar and butter, and get mixing!
• When mixed, divide the cake mixture into three equal portions.
• Here's how to make these little cakes in camouflage colours.
• For the brown, use a tablespoon of cocoa powder. Just add it into one of the portions of cake mixture.
• And for the green, use concentrate paste or food colouring. Again, add to another portion of cake mixture, then mix.
• Once the colours are mixed, you need to splodge! There are two ways you can do this - you can either get a spoonful and splodge it in or you can put your mixture into a bag, snip off one of the corners and squirt it in!
• Because you're splodging the colours in, they don't get mixed up. And when you bake them, the colours will stay separate so that you get a really colourful cake.
• When you've done them all, cook the cakes at 190 degrees celsius or gas mark 5 for 15 minutes.
• Once the cakes have cooked and cooled, you can ice them. The design looks really complicated, but it's very simple! Start off by getting your icing in camouflage colours - brown, green and yellow.
• Roll out one of the colours with a rolling pin, but remember to put some icing sugar down first so that it doesn't get stuck to the table!
• Then, tear off blobs of the coloured icings. Place them on the rolled out icing, then if you roll again, you'll see the pattern start to emerge!
• Next, get a cutter that's the same size as the top of your cake, and cut out a circle of icing.
• Then just carefully place the icing on top of each cake, like a lid.
