Gruffalo cake

[MrsGubbins]

Planning to make this cake for DS birthday this week.

It doesn't state what size tin to use (or it does and the text is over written on my screen) would a 20cm square cake pan do, considering the mix of 6 eggs/300g flour etc?

thank you!

Ingredients for the cake:

375g soft butter or margarine

375g castor sugar

300g self-raising flour

75g cocoa powder

6 medium eggs

3 level tsps baking powder

For the butter cream

500g softened butter

750g sieved icing sugar

2-3 tbsps hot water

750g dark chocolate drops

For the decoration

1kg green icing

250g white sugarpaste

50g orange sugarpaste

25g black sugarpaste

50g of red sugarpaste or a round, red sweet.

Purple food colour

You will also need:

1 x 10” square cake tin

14” cake drum (square)

1 x 10” square piece of card

1 satay stick

2 lengths of 20 gauge white food grade wire

Recipe

1. Bake the cake. Pre-heat the oven to 180C (350F, gas mark 4). Grease the tin and line the base. Place all the ingredients into a food mixer or large bowl and mix at high speed until smooth. Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 1¼ - 1½ hours or until firm to the touch and a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. Allow to cool in the tin for a few minutes, then turn out onto a rack to cool completely.

1. Make the butter cream. Put the butter into a large bowl or food processor, together with the hot water, and mix well. Beat in the icing sugar a little at a time, mixing until it is light and creamy. Melt the chocolate drops and add to the butter cream, beating well until mixed together.

1. Once the cake is completely cold, split it carefully in half horizontally, using a serrated knife. Spread one half with about a third of the butter cream, and sandwich the two halves back together again

Macmillan Children’s Books

This is the scrambled bit on my iPad, it unscrambles when I turn it round though!

thank you Bobs. I'll reduce the mix and use my 20cm tin and hope for the best!

Hi there,
I was just wondering if the 20cm cake tin worked as I am thinking of making the same cake for a 2nd birthday but don't know whcih size tin to use! Any advice would be gratefully received! Thanks very much!