Here is the recipe, I used a chocolate cake recipe from BBC Good Food http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/easy_chocolate_cake_31070 and made mini ones from it as I have used it before and it is yummy!!
Ingredients:
chocolate cake:
225g plain flour
350g caster sugar
85g cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 free range eggs
250ml milk
125ml vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
250ml boiling water
blue butter icing:
blue butter icing:
140g butter, softened
280g icing sugar
1-2 tbsp milk
a few drops of blue food colouring
280g icing sugar
1-2 tbsp milk
a few drops of blue food colouring
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F and grease and line two cake tins
The cake is so easy to make, just simply put all the ingredients into a mixing bowl except from the water and beat until smooth
The water should be added a little at a time and then pour the mixture equally into the two cake tins
Put the cakes in the oven for 30-35 minutes and then leave to cool
Once completely cool the cakes can be made into mini cakes by using a cake cutter so all the cakes will be the same size (it also means there are leftover cuttings to taste test!! Always a bonus) The cakes can be doubled up with pretty blue icing in the middles
For the blue icing simply mix all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl and use a piping bag to decorate however you wish, this is my favourite part! I also sprinkled blue crystals on mine to give them a little shimmer but you can be as creative as you like.
I used a Tesco piping bag kit which comes with different shaped nozzles and plenty of piping bags so you can do various colours
Enjoy!!
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