Kids Spiky Party Cake
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Difficulty:
moderate
Difficulty
Preparation:
2 h.
Preparation
ready in 14 h.
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Ingredients
for
1
- Ingredients
- 3.333 cups flour (first clear flour)
- 1 cup butter (at room temperature)
- ¾ cup caster sugar
- 3 tsps Baking powder
- 5 large eggs
- ⅞ cup milk
- salt
- 1 Tbsp grated Lemon peel
- For the chocolate cream
- 2 cups Milk chocolate (min 30% cocoa solids), chopped
- 6 eggs
- ¼ cup Vanilla sugar
- 1 cup cream
- 4 Tbsps sugar
- In addition
- ⅔ cup Whipped cream ((min 30% fat])
- Chocolate stick
- Chocolate bean
Preparation steps
1.
Cream the butter with the sugar until pale, light and fluffy. Add a pinch of salt and beat in the eggs.
2.
Mix the flour and baking powder and sieve onto the mixture. Add the lemon peel and gradually add the milk to produce a batter with a soft dropping consistency. Add more milk if necessary.
3.
Preheat the oven to 180°C (160° fan) | 350F | gas 4. Grease a loaf pan and turn the batter into the pan. Bake on a low shelf of the oven for 50-60 minutes, until golden. Test to see if it is done by inserting a needle or cocktail stick.
4.
Turn the cake out onto a cake rack and let cool completely. It is best to bake the cake the day before you need it.
5.
For the chocolate cream, roughly chop the chocolate and melt in a bain-marie. Remove from the heat.
6.
Separate the eggs. Beat the egg yolks with the vanilla sugar over a hot bain-marie until thick and foamy and the sugar has dissolved.
7.
Beat the well-chilled cream until stiff. Beat the egg whites with the sugar until they form stiff peaks.
8.
Add the egg yolk mixture to the chocolate and stir in with a whisk. Put the whipped cream on top of the chocolate mixture and quickly mix in with a whisk before it sets. Carefully fold in the beaten egg whites.
9.
Cut the cake into exactly 2 halves. Cut away all the crusts and using a large, sharp knife cut the cake halves into oval hedgehog shapes (use the trimmings for a dessert).
10.
Coat both hedgehogs with chocolate cream. Leave the face smooth and roughen the rest of the hedgehog with a pastry brush. Put the whipped cream into a piping bag with a plain nozzle and pipe small blobs all over the hedgehog. Pipe eyes, nose and mouth in cream.
11.
Insert a chocolate stick into each blob of cream. Add chocolate beans to the eyes and nose. Serve well chilled.
