Fairy House Birthday Cake
From Sainsbury'sThis novelty cake is ideal for a child's party.
Serves: 8
Preparation time: 90 Minutes
Cooking time: 60 Minutes
Ingredients
250g butter or margarine
250g caster sugar
4 medium size eggs
250g self raising flour, sifted
2 tablespoons hot water
100g butter
200g icing sugar, sifted
1 tablespoon cocoa powder blended with a tablespoon boiling water
1-2 drops green food colouring
3 tablespoons apricot jam
250g red fondant icing
Few Liquorice sweets
1 marshmallow
Hundreds & thousands
Sugar flowers
Method
Preheat the oven to 160°C, fan 140°C, gas 3. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a tablespoon of the flour with the second egg. Fold in the remaining flour with a metal spoon, then the hot water.
Remove one end from an empty 800g can and clean the can thoroughly. Grease and flour the can and a 1.2 litre ovenproof bowl. Spoon the cake mixture into the containers, two thirds filling the can. Level the surfaces.
Bake in the oven for 50 minutes for the can and 55 to 60 minutes for the basin. Loosen round the edges with a long thin knife and turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
Meanwhile make the butter creams, beat together 75g of the butter and 150g icing sugar until smooth. Add the blended cocoa mixture. In a separate bowl, beat together the remaining butter and icing sugar. Add the green food colouring. Set aside.
Cover the 'can' cake with chocolate butter icing, reserving 2 tablespoons, and place on a cake board. Brush the 'basin' cake with apricot jam. Roll out the fondant icing thinly on a surface sprinkled with cornflour into a 28cm circle. Lift onto a rolling pin and position over the basin cake. Mould to the cake, folding any excess underneath at the base. Carefully place this cake on top of the other one for the roof.
Cut some liquorice sweets into thin slices and stick onto the roof with a little glaze to make spots.
Make doors and windows from liquorice sweets and a chimney from a black liquorice sweets and a marshmallow. Press into position. Use the reserved butter icing to pipe on window frames and door knobs.
Ice the board with green butter icing and rough up with a fork to represent grass. Make a path up to the door with small triangles of liquorice and hundreds and thousands. Decorate with sugar flowers.
