Hiya Claire here.
I was in the kitchen baking with my 3 year old DD when she asked if we could make "scary but friendly monster cakes" Huh? I had a quick rummage in my baking supplies cupboard, I found some green food colouring & some tubes of writing icing, then I snaffled some Jelly Tots from DD's sweetie box (for the monsters noses). I mixed some butter icing with 3ozs butter & 6ozs icing sugar, adding the food colouring to the shade of "monster green" that DD liked I then mixed in 1 teaspoon of boiling water to set the icing. Then I just spooned the icing on the flattened it with the back of the spoon
DD added the Jelly Tot Noses (in the colour of her choice, of course) I then drew the eyes & noses with the writing icing, DD also said "can they have straight hair? Green, like mine?" Okay then, green hair it is...
The recipe I used for the cakes is the standard Fairy Cake Recipe...
4ozs Self Raising Flour
4ozs Caster Sugar
4ozs Butter
2 Medium Eggs (beaten separately)
1 Tsp Vanilla Essence.
Beat the butter & sugar together, add 1 beaten egg, beat in & mix in 1 tablespoon of flour, add the second egg & add another tablespoon of flour, add the vanilla essence, then fold in the remaining flour. Put into cases (this recipe makes 12) & bake on the middle shelf on Gas Mark 5 for 20 minutes (or insert a skewer in the middle of the cake, if it comes out clean they're cooked)
Thanks for stopping by, Hope to see you again soon
and
Happy Halloween
Claire
xx
Hmmmm, looks so tasty, will defo be having a go myself with these.
Posted by: Jewellery Making | September 21, 2009 at 04:52 PM
Definitely scary but friendly!
Posted by: Kelly | September 22, 2009 at 12:40 AM