I love making birthday cakes in this house, because they are safe for everyone to devour.
I also struggle to find a good cake recipe that will turn out not completely hard and flat!
Valerie wanted a Frozen party. (If you have not seen the movie, then you will not understand the novel idea of having a snowman made out of popcorn and marshmallows, and a truly frozen cake!)
I had wanted to do a proper ice cream cake for Val, but after I made the cake, I realised that my cake pans were inches wider than the recipe, even though I doubled it (!)-- hence a flat cake. So Val was quite happy to have a crescent moon shaped cake which meant 4 layers, and more sorbet. The reason it was sorbet was partly because I could not get to the right store that sells soy ice cream, and partly because Val loves rainbows, and inside the cake it looked a bit rainbow-ish. We had a layer of cake, then a layer of raspberry jam, then a layer of mango sorbet, then the next layer of cake, and so on. Followed by white coconut butter cream frosting (which tastes really yummy with coconut oil and dairy free margarine), and detail blue icing from a tube, and spray silver for a great shimmer.
For anyone who wants an easy gluten free treat for children, here is the link to popcorn balls
And here is the link to the cake recipe:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/eggless_sponge_cake_70634
And the frosting: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/buttercream-coconut-cake-icing/
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