More birthday cakes - my newly 6-year-old had his birthday in the school holidays, so he missed out on taking cakes to share with his classmates.
I'm not a big fan of making (or eating) cupcakes, but I know it's a lot easier for a teacher to share small cakes around the class than to cut slices of a bigger birthday cake.
So this evening I made some cupcakes for him to take tomorrow. I made a simple cake batter from Tessa Kiros's 'Apples For Jam' (the Tiny Cakes recipe) and it produced lots of little cakes....
...lots and lots of little cakes.
I know that for most children the cake topping is the most interesting part, so I made a chocolate icing that tastes good and is really easy to make.Melt butter and milk in a small pan. Sieve cocoa powder into a large bowl. Pour melted butter/milk mixture into the cocoa powder, add vanilla extract and stir together. Sift in icing sugar and mix well.
It starts to set as you are spreading it on the cakes, so stir in a few drops of milk as you go if it's getting too thick to work with.
There wasn't enough icing to cover all the cakes I made, but double the recipe would have done it easily.
Now I have plenty of chocolate icing and raspberry jelly sweet-topped cakes to send to class KF tomorrow (and I only needed 22!)
Chocolate Icing ingredients:
65 g butter
3 tbsp milk
25 g cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
225 g icing sugar
1 comment:
Very considerate of you to make lots of little cakes instead of one big one. It looks like this recipe makes practically a million- the kids must have been so excited. And I think that at any age, the icing is always pretty cool :D
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