Recipe - Harlequin Fruit Salad

175 g Butter or margarine; (6oz)
175 g Caster sugar; (6oz)
3 Eggs; size 3
150 g Selfraising flour; (5oz)
5 ml Baking powder; (1 teaspoon)
25 g Cadbury's cocoa; (1oz)
1 small Orange
Orange food colouring
350 g Chocolate butter icing;
(12oz)
2 lg Pack Cadbury's milk
chocolate Buttons
1 Glac‚ cherry
2 Roasted coffee beans;
raisins or small
; sweets

ALSO YOU WILL REQUIRE
1 One fourth l Ovenproof basin; greased (2
pint)
A baking tray

Cream the fat and sugar until light in colour and texture. Gradually add
the eggs, then fold in the flour and baking powder sifted together. In a
separate mixing bowl, blend the cocoa to a paste with a little boiling
water, then add half the cake mixture to it and mix well. Finely grate the
orange rind and add it to the remaining mixture with enough strained orange
juice to make a soft dropping consistency. Add colouring, if liked.

Spoon the two mixtures alternately into the basin then swirl through only
once so that they remain separate. Smooth the top and hollow out the centre
slightly. Stand the cake on a baking tray and cook in a moderate oven
(180øC / 350øF / Gas Mark 4) for 11One fourth hours until cooked through. When
cooked, a warm skewer inserted into the middle of the cake should come out
cleanly. Turn out and cool on a wire tray.

To decorate: Spread the flat base of the turnedout cake with some of the
icing, then cut it in half down the middle. Sandwich the two iced ends
together to make the dome shape of the hedgehog. Cut down through the cake
on either side of the butter icing, spread with a little more icing and put
the cake back together again. Lift the cake on to a board or flat plate and
cover it completely with chocolate butter icing. Put a little more
chocolate icing on one end and mark with a fork to make a pointed snout and
face.

Rub the Buttons to make them shine, then cut each in half. Stick them in at
an angle, in lines, over threequarters of the cake leaving the forked area
clear, ensuring all the Buttons point in the same direction. Place the
cherry in position to make a nose and the coffee beans, raisins or small
sweets on the cake to represent eyes.

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NOTES : A real favourite with the tinies. But do cut the cake from the back
leaving the face intact to avoid tears! Serves about 10.

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