Frosted white chocolate cake

Ingredients

• 250g butter, plus a little extra for greasing
• 140g white chocolate, broken into pieces
• 250ml milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 250g self-raising flour
• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 300g caster sugar
• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten

For Frosting 

• 300g tub Philadelphia cheese
• 85g butter, softened
• 100g icing sugar, sifted
• mini eggs, to decorate (or use 50g/2oz chopped hazelnuts)

What to do :

1. Heat oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Grease a deep 23cm cake tin and line the base with greaseproof paper. Place the butter, white chocolate, milk and vanilla extract in a small saucepan, then heat gently, stirring, until melted. Combine the flour, bicarb and sugar in a large bowl with a pinch of salt, then stir in the melted ingredients and eggs until smooth. Pour the batter into the tin, then bake for 1 hr, or until the cake is golden and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tin. Once cool, the cake can be wrapped in cling film and foil, then frozen for up to 1 month.
2. To make the frosting, beat together the Philadelphia, butter and icing sugar until smooth. Spread over the cake, then decorate with mini eggs.

victoria sponge cake

you will need :
mixing bowl
sieve
teaspoon
tablespoon
electric hand mixer or wooden spoon
greased 8inch sandwich tin lined with baking parchment
palette knife
wire rack
sharp knife
large plate for serving
brithday candles if needed

ingredients:
175g (6oz) self-raising flour
1 rounded tsp baking powder
3 large eggs
175 (6oz) caster sugar
175(6oz) unsalted butter softened
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp milk

what to do :
1. preheat the oven to 180°c (350°F/gas mark 4)

2. sift the flour and baking powder in to the mixing bowl holding the sift high to make sure lots of air gets in.Now add all the other cake ingredirents to the bowl.

3.using the mixer beat until the mixture is really whipped and smooth.If you dont have an electric mixer you will have to beat hard with a wooden spoon and it will take longer but it will work. You want a mixture which drips softly off the spoon. Divide the mixture between the 2 cake tins and level the tops with the paltte knife.

4. Place on the middle shelf of the oven for 30 minutes. Don't open the door while they are cooking or the cakes may collapse.

5. Test to see if the cakes are ready by pressing very lightly on the middle of the cake witg one finger. If the sponge springs back they re ready

6.Take the tins out of the oven and leave for about 10 minutes before turning the cakes on to the wire rack. Leave theme to get completely cold and carefully peel off the paper from tje botyoms before filling.

Filling :
Ingredients:
3 tbsp strawberry jam
punnet of strawberries
1 small pot doible cream
icing sugar

what to do :
1. Place one sponge on the serving plate. Spread the jam over the top

2. Now put the strawberries on top if the jam cutting any large ones in
half

3. Whip the cream until it's thick but still soft and dollop on top of the strawberries spreading lightly to cover them

4. Place the other sponge on top Finish by sifting dusting of icing sugar if you have any strawberries left over you can slice them up and put them on top.

mickey mouse cookies

giant mickey mouse cookies

ingredients
for the cookies
200g (7oz) of unsalted butter
200g (7oz) caster sugar
1 egg
 400g (14oz) plain flour plus extra for dusting
1/2tsp of vanilla essence

for decoration
500g (1lb 2oz) icing sugar sifted
black and pink food coloring

1. place the butter and sugar in to a bowl and beat theme until they are just creamy in texture ( dont over mix because cookies will spread in baking ) add the vanilla essence and then beat in the egg until well combined.

2.add the flour and mix until a dough forms. Gather the dough into a ball,wrap it in clin flim and chill for atlest an hour

3.place the dough on a lightly floured surface and using a rolling pin roll it out to 1 even thickness approximately 5mm (1/4 in)

4. dut the top of the dough very lightly with flour then u can cut out the cookie and do its face

5. make the icing  and put in the right place