cake for 3 mums & 9 children!

[misshardbroom]

I'm feeding the 5,000 tomorrow, tell me your favourite cake recipes for the sort of big cake you can cut up for lots of people.

And if it doesn't requireme to re-mortgage in order to buy the ingredients, so much the better!

I'd go cupcakes - posh ones for the mums and easy vanilla ones for the kids shall find you a couple of links

either that cheesecake for mums which you can make tonight and chill overnight

white chocolate mud cake is always a winner

white chocolate cheesecake

dizzydixies I have successfully ignored the white chocolate mud cake recipe for a good week or so... and then you put it right in front of me!!

might have to do it now, especially since discovering that Sainsbury's Basics white chocolate is actually not bad....

hummingbird cupcakes

these are fab and grown up, I made them yesterday as a present and topped them with cream cheese frosting, chopped pecans and cinnamon - lovely

oops sorry!!!

for the kids I'd make smaller cupcakes, I have a receipe somewhere for ones using yogurt and they're fabulous and not too bad for you - shall track that down too if you like! if you're short of time I'd suggest buying a tub of frosting and putting a little into small boths then mixing up with different colours for the kids too

makes 12 yogurt fairy cakes

125g sunflower spread
125 caster sugar
2 medium eggs, beaten
125g pot fruit flavoured yogurt
100g self raising flour

icing is lovely for these -

100g soft cream cheese
40g icing sugar
1tssp marmalade

heat oven to 180 & line bun tin

sunflower spread, caster sugar into bowl with beaten eggs and HALF the yogurt and the s/r flour - beat with electric whisk

cook for 18-20 minutes

beat ingredients for icing all together and spread on cooled cakes - decorate as desired

they truely are lovey and light and depending on which yogurt you can change the taste , I've used strawberry, lemon, raspberry, apricot etc and they've all turned out lovely

good luck what ever you choose

these are great ideas, thanks!

Fortunately, none of the children have allergies, the only difficult one is my own fussy drawers DD!

Marslady's lemon drizzle! It's massive, delicious and disappears in our house