• Chocolate & Vanilla Cup Cakes
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Decorate your own cake!
First, make your cake with the recipe below, or buy a plain one from your local superstore. You can use or make cupcakes, or a whole cake.
Recipe for making cakes.
Cakes
You will need 4oz (about 100g) of each ingredient:
• Butter
• Caster sugar
• Self-raising flour
• 2 eggs
• Cooking utensils
What you do:
1. Sieve the flour before adding to the mixture. Whisk the butter and sugar together until the mixture is light and creamy, then beat the eggs together and add to the the butter and sugar mixture gradually with a little bit of the flour.
2. Then you should fold in what remains of the flour - the best way to fold is to remember the "cut and round" motion, whereby you add the ingredient to the mixture, cut through it with your spatula as if you were cutting it in half, then bring the spatula round the bowl in a circle.
3. Once all the flour has been properly folded in, you should divide the mixture equally between two cake tins of about 6 inch diameter, then bake in the oven for about 20-25 minutes at a temperature of about 190?C, which equates to gas mark 5 or 375?F.
4. Remember not to open the oven door while they are baking or else they will sink in the middle. You can tell they are ready when they have risen and are an even golden brown colour.
Cupcakes are made in the same way, but before you put the mixture into the oven, the mixture should be poured into cupcake cases on a baking tray.
Now, the decorating...
You can decorate cakes in many ways, you can draw designs on, or cover the whole thing in icing, or both, or stick icing sculptures on, or fruit and cake decorations. You can decorate your cake in any way you like!
And why not take a picture of your finished cake, and upload it onto the computer, and send us in a copy on the Comments Page? If you do, it will be featured on this page, with your name below it! WOW!
Remember, cupcakes can be decorated too!
So get cooking!!!
