Cake for school fete

freyasmum

If you're not sure about the plain icing, you could do cream cheese icing next time

Just mix cream cheese and icing sugar until you think it tastes right

jennyjelly

Try this one. Easy peasy to make, cuts into 20 pieces (5 x 4 in a roasting tin) and sells easily for 60p a piece. I made this for every cake stall I ever did and it was always the first to sell, both to adults and kids.



CHOCOLATE BANANA CAKE


6½ oz plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tbsps cocoa powder
5 oz caster sugar
2 mashed bananas (old squashy ones are best!)
2 eggs
¼ pint milk
¼ pint sunflower oil
2 tbsps golden syrup

Mix everything together (it will be like thick batter) and pour into a roasting tin lined with greased foil. Cook for about 30 mins (until springy in the middle) at gas mark 4.


TOPPING

2 oz butter, melted
2 tbsps milk
2 tbsps cocoa powder
8 oz icing sugar (approx – I just keep adding till it looks right)

Mix together and spread on cake when cold.


Cut into pieces once the topping has set a bit.

Good luck with the stall whatever you decide to make.

Penelope_Penguin

tyllwyd wrote: »

Thanks everyone!

Unfortunately I am the least confident cook ever (not the worst cook, just total lack of confidence in what I've made!) and I've never managed to get my icing to go right, so I just went with the sponges in the end, and put £2 on them - which to be honest looks very low to me, but I was so stressed after I'd made them I couldn't cope with anything more!

I bake what my children have named "Domestic Goddess Cake" For a 8" round cake tin mix 150g each of caster sugar, soft margarine, eggs and SR flour. Add a tsp baking powder, and whisk until incorporated, and then for 2 mins. Bake at gas 5 for about 25 mins until cooked. When cool take out of the oven and allow to cool. Make icing of 100g icing sugar and water added slowly (you want it to have just enough water to incorporate all the sugar - too much and it's too runny). You can also add a couple of drops of colouring, but I think white looks really classy. Decorate with sugar decorations or silver balls

HTH, Penny. x