Gromit cakes
Very basic recipes to make the bits and pieces, just fiddly to put together.
First I made ears from a basic cookie dough recipe (which I halved as I only needed a small amount):
5oz plain flour
2.5 oz caster sugar
4ox butter
egg yolk
drop vanilla essence
tsp salt
2 tsp cocoa powder
Beat the butter and sugar together, add the egg yolk and vanilla essence, add the flour, cococa and salt and knead together to make a dough.
I rolled it out to about 1/2 cm thickness and then sliced it into small rectangles to make ear shapes. The children have been eating the additonal ears all morning and I made 36 cakes so this must have made about 100 rectangles.
Cook on GM4 for about 10 minutes on greased baking sheets, leave to cool.
I then made 36 cupcakes - this recipe is for 12 so I made 3 batches of it:
4oz caster sugar
4oz soft butter or margarine
4oz flour
2 eggs
vanilla essence
Add all ingredients together in a bowl and beat until smooth.
Divide the mixture into paper cake cases and cook for 20 minutes on GM4.
When cool smear on some butter icing (made with 6oz butter and 12oz icing sugar), add two biscuits for ears, a chocolate button for a nose, two dots of white writing icing with two milk chocolate chips for eyes.
oh gosh, you are sooo creative!!!
Comment by t-bird — September 6, 2006 @ 7:33 pm
I’m exhausted just looking at them!
Comment by Heather — November 14, 2006 @ 3:24 pm