Happy Easter Weekend!

Alright, so it's not quite Easter until tomorrow... but it's Easter weekend.

Yesterday, me and my sister got bored so we decided to bake a cake. Originally we wanted to make it into a colourful, speckled egg, however we didn't have a baking tin that was the right shape... which isn't surprising, really, seeing as we don't tend to make egg shaped cakes, they are usually round. So, instead we improvised with what we had and this is how it turned out...

Step 1. The mixing of the ingredients. This is my sister mixing the cake mix together - told you she'd make another appearance! We used a recipe off of BBC (thanks BBC!) and added a little more to the recipe.

Which you can't see from this photo, but you can see from this next one. Step 2. Adding the cocoa powder (we wanted a chocolate sponge), mixing it together and adding the mix to the cake tins. After greasing the tins, of course, otherwise the cakes will stick. We added three teaspoonfuls of Bournville cocoa powder to the mix - testing it each time to see if it tasted alright. I think we could've added a little more really...

...and as you can see, it's barely filled the tins. This is just one of them, obviously. Our tins were too wide, oops. However since we had self raising flour we hoped they'd raise a lot more.

Nope.

Step 3. Which is technically 4, since I'm skipping the part where we take the cakes out of the oven and let them cool etc. etc. blah blah blah. Time for decorating, yay! We used Dr Oetker Hundreds & Thousands, and also a little ring Amber had left over from when she bought a cupcake the other day; the ring was in the top of the cupcake so we sort of stole their idea...

Et voila! Easter cake, done and dusted decorated. The bunny looks like it's lying in a field of flowers, if only grass was cream coloured. Yeah... we made a vanilla butter icing, I think it would have been better if we made chocolate butter icing to go with the chocolate sponge BUT HEY! That's just not how we rolled yesterday.

Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed this post and if you did, please tell me because I can assure you there is more baking where that came from! Me and my sister bake quite a lot, especially when our mother is out... whoops.

- Kirstie x

(P.S. here's a link to my sister's tumblr)