Dogs in mud cake

Hi guys,

Now I know that baking isn't really related to fashion/beauty but for a long time I have loved baking. Therefore I thought I should share some of my recipes!!

Ingredients:

For the cake:
3 medium free range eggs
200g sr flour
200g caster sugar
200g stork cooking margarine
30g-50g of cocoa powder (depends on how chocolaty you want it)

For between the cakes:

200g icing sugar
100g stork

For the top:

250ml double cream
400g milk chocolate (I just used 4 bars of sainsburys basics)
3 boxes of chocolate fingers (You could also use kitkats if you didn't like fingers!)

Ready roll icing
Food colouring: black (or any other colour you want your dogs to be)


How to make:

• Preheat your oven to gas mark 4/ 180 degrees (fan) and line 2 20cm (8in) cake tins
• Add your  sugar and stork into a bowl and whisk until light and fluffy
• Mix the 3 eggs into a mug/bowl until beaten together
• Add a third of the eggs and a table spoon of sr flour to the sugar and stork 
• Repeat this until the eggs have been mixed in
• With the left over flour mix it with the cocoa powder and add to the mixture
• Divide mixture into the cake tins and cook for 15-25 minutes depending on your oven

For the icing:

• While your cakes are coking beat the icing sugar and stork together
• DON'T ADD EXTRA STORK as it will eventually turn into butter icing just keep beating it
• Once your cakes have cooled place the icing sugar onto the bottom cake

For the chocolate sauce:

• Place the cream into a pan over a low heat
• Keep stirring until it starts to boil
• In between break the chocolate bar into small pieces
• When the cream is almost boiling remove it from the heat and gradually add the chocolate
• Keep stirring until you have a nice smooth mass and then leave to cool stirring every now and again

This is where you have to be patient. Make sure your chocolate sauce has cooed before taking these next steps!!

• Once your chocolate sauce has cooled smear some of it onto the sides of your cake. Use a spatula or a back of a knife to do this.
• Once you have completed this stick your chocolate fingers onto the sides of your cake but making sure they don't slip off. This part can be quite tricky so take your time!
• Now pour the remaining of the chocolate sauce onto the top. IF YOUR SAUCE IS TOO THIN IT WILL SEEP THROUGH GAPS!
• Place it in the fridge for 5-10 minutes before placing you dogs/animals onto the cake
• The dogs which I chose to do were black labs but I couldn't turn the icing black so I eventually gave up, but I think if you tried you could make them black.
• Also as it was for someone birthday I wrote 'Happy Birthday' in writing icing.

I hope you enjoyed this type of blog post. Please if you make this cake send me a picture of it @unicorngirl945

Unicorn Girl xxx