A friend recently asked me to create a robot cake for her now 5 year old son. The only requirements were a chocolate cake with chocolate filling (well he is 5!) and a robot theme. I had only 12hrs to complete this cake as the original cake never materialised but my friends money did disappear! I have a tried and tested chocolate madeira cake which is super moist and holds up well under the weight of the sugar paste. I pulled this together out of bits in my quite massive baking cupboard so I am pretty happy how it turned out. I heard that there was none left after a bunch of crazy 5 year olds devoured it.
What you need: (for one 9x13 inch baking tray)
305g Unsalted Butter305g Caster sugar
3 Large eggs
3 teaspoons Baking powder
230g plain flour
6-8 tablespoons Full fat milk
0,5 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
40g Cocoa
What you need to do:
- Sift the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder together
- In a bowl, cream butter and sugar together. Beat for 6-7 mins untilll pale and voluminous.
- Beat each egg in one at a time. Ensure each is well mixed before adding the next.
- Fold the flour and cocoa mix into the eggs carefully.
- Add the vanilla essence and milk a tablespoon at a time until desired consistency reached.
- Spoon into tin and level off with a palette knife.
- Bake at 170°C for 30 mins. Check with a skewer to determine if cooked.
- Leave in tins to cool for 10 mins before gently removing to a wire tray to cool.
