225 g Soft margarine; (8oz)
225 g Caster sugar; (8oz)
4 Eggs
200 g Self-raising flour; (7oz)
2 1/2 ml Baking powder; (1/2
-teaspoon)
1 Orange
25 g Cadbury’s Bournville cocoa;
-(1oz)
-TO DECORATE-
675 g Chocolate butter icing;
-(11/2 lb.)
A Cadbury’s ’99’ Flake
-family box
Soft brown sugar
-ALSO YOU WILL REQUIRE-
Toy soldiers; cowboys and
-Indians
Candles and holders
An 8cm; (31/4 inch)
; diameter, clean,
; empty food tin
A 23cm; (9 inch) square cake
; tin, greased and
; base lined
A baking tray
A 30cm; (12 inch) cake or
; chopping board
To make the special shape, place the food tin, wrapped with greaseproof
paper or foil, in the centre of the cake tin. Weight it down with scale
weights or something similar. This makes the hole in the centre of the
cake.
With an electric mixer, beat the margarine and sugar together well.
Gradually beat in the eggs with a little flour and then fold in the sieved
flour and baking powder. Halve the mixture; add the finely grated orange
rind and half the juice to one amount, the cocoa and remaining juice to the
other. Place alternate spoonfuls of both mixtures in the prepared tin and
smooth over the surface, being careful not to disturb the colours too much.
Bake on a baking tray at Gas Mark 4 / 180C / 350F for about 50 minutes
until well risen and cooked through in the centre. Leave for a few minutes
before carefully turning out, removing the tin in the centre first. Cool
the cake.
Have the chocolate butter icing made before you assemble the cake. Measure
7.5cm (3 inch) in from each corner and mark the line across so that you
make a straight clean cut, cutting a triangular piece off each corner (Fig
1). Make sure this is done accurately. Lift the cake on to the board and
then stick the triangular ‘turrets’ upright on each side with a little
butter icing (Fig 2). Spread the whole cake with a little icing and do not
worry if the crumbs get mixed in. Chill for half an hour or place in the
freezer until the surface is hard enough to spread the remaining butter
icing on top.
Now the crumbs will not get into the icing nearly so easily. Begin with the
hole in the centre and cover the whole cake neatly. Stand one Flake upright
at either side to make an entrance in the middle of one side of the cake.
Split the remaining Flake lengthways into thinner pieces and press these on
to the outer edge of the cake; it is a fiddly job but it does look
effective.
Scatter brown sugar round about for ‘sand’ and arrange the soldiers,
cowboys and Indians. Lastly arrange the correct number of candles in
position.
Yields
1 servings