Recipe - Halloween Fudge Cake

50 g Cadbury's Bournville
chocolate; (2oz)
125 g Butter; (4oz)
175 g Soft brown sugar; (6oz)
2 Eggs; separated
175 g Selfraising flour; (6oz)
2 One half ml Salt; (One half teaspoon)
2 One half ml Ground mixed spice; (1/2
teaspoon)
2 One half ml Ground cinnamon; (1/2
teaspoon)
25 g Chopped candied peel; (2oz)
80 ml Milk; (4 Tbs)

CHOCOLATE CATS
100 g Cadbury's Bournville
chocolate
20 Red sugar balls; (20 to 30)
2 Glac‚ cherries
Red liquorice shoe laces

TO DECORATE
80 ml Lemon curd; (4 Tbs)
225 g Plain butter icing; (8oz)
5 ml Ground mixed spice; (1
teaspoon)
Yellow food colouring
50 g Cadbury's Bournville
chocolate
4 Cadbury's '99' Flake from
the family box

ALSO YOU WILL REQUIRE
2 0 cm; (8 inch) round deep
; cake tin, greased
; and base lined
2 Greaseproof paper piping
bags
Waxed paper

Melt the chocolate for the cake. Cream the butter and sugar, stir in the
egg yolks and melted chocolate. Sift all the dry ingredients together and
fold them into the mixture, followed by the peel and milk, mixing well.
Whisk the egg whites until stiff and fold them in before turning the
mixture into the prepared tin, levelling it carefully. Bake in a warm oven
(160øC / 325øF / Gas Mark 3) for 11One fourth hours until well risen and cooked.
Turn out and cool on a wire tray.

Make the cats in advance. Melt 100g chocolate carefully in a small bowl
over hot water (or in a microwave oven). Draw or trace one or several cat
outlines about 6cm (2One fourth inches) high onto a piece of white paper. Place
waxed paper on top of the drawing, waxed side upwards.

Fill the piping bag with melted chocolate, cut off the tip then pipe the
cat outlines and fill in the centres. Press two red sugar ball eyes in
position and cut up small pieces of cherry for noses, adding liquorice for
whiskers and tails. Leave the cats to harden for between 12 hours, then
carefully peel them off the paper.

To complete, slice the cake horizontally through the middle and sandwich it
back together with half the lemon curd. Beat the remaining curd into the
plain butter icing with the mixed spice and enough yellow colouring to make
a rich colour. Spread this icing all over the cake, making it as smooth as
possible.

Trace a suitable witch's outline, first on to a piece of paper and then
carefully mark the outline on the icing at the centre of the cake. Melt the
chocolate, fill the piping bag with it and cut off the tip. Follow the
marked outline with chocolate, filling in the hair, feet and other suitable
features. Pipe star and moon shapes on to the waxed paper, shiny side up,
and fill them in with more chocolate. Leave the chocolate to dry completely
before peeling the shapes off the paper and placing them on the cake. Make
a broomstick of Flakes and arrange a thin piece on top as the hat brim.
Fill in the witch with crumbled Flake.

Lift the cake on to a brightly coloured plate before standing the chocolate
cats around the edge. The ones at the back can be made to peep over the
top, depending on where the cake is placed on the table.

Cook's tip: If the chocolate hardens in the bag while you make up the cats
or completing the decoration, put the bag in a warm place to melt the
chocolate again.

Converted by MC_Buster.

NOTES : Children's books are a useful source of inspiration for cake
decorations. Trace an outline then prick it on to the cake or pipe it
straight on to waxed paper. Serves 10.

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