Down below cake
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basic sponge cake | |
| Mix/recipe | ||
| Red food colouring | ||
| Yellow food colouring | ||
| Blue food colouring | ||
| Green food colouring | ||
| Black food colouring | ||
| Whipped cream | ||
| 500 | grams | Bar of cadbury's bournville |
| Or similar slab of dark | ||
| Chocolate | ||
Directions
Right. Bring all your ingredients together as you would for a normal cake until you get to the stage where you'd normally stick it in the oven. Now, divide the cake into 5 equal amounts with each amount in a separate bowl with some form of stirring apparatus (wooden spoon would be ideal) Into four of the five pour about 3 Tbls. of food colouring (but not the black, 1 colour in each) and stir in really quickly. It might curdle a bit here but if you stir it enough it should be ok (either that or add the colour a little at a time) when you have your 4 coloured segments put them to one side. Now break off about 4 chunks of the chocolate. Eat them. Better? Good. Melt the rest of the chocolate and when it's good and runny stir it in to the final 5th of the cake mix. Now taking dollops from each colour at a time (you should have green, red, blue, yellow and brown) splat them into a cake tin trying not to get any 1 dollop touching another dollop of the same colour. Sling this into your oven/furnace or whatever and leave it to cook for however long your sponge recipe suggests.
In the meantime make up some standard icing (or frosting as they say in the American parts of the world) and whang in loads of the black food colouring until you get a really dark grey (you might need to thicken up the icing a bit here as it tends to go over runny).
Finally add a small amount of red and a small amount of blue food colouring to the whipped cream and give it a good stir so it all goes purple.
Now wait for the cake to finish cooking....
....is it done? well don't look if it isn't or it'll sink....
...finished? good. Turn out the cake (which should look like a patchwork with any luck) onto a rack and leave to cool for a bit.
When it's cool enough saw it in half horizontally and slap the cream in the middle (the colours inside should be incredibly vivid compared to the outside). Reassemble the 2 halves and throw on the icing.
Leave to set. You should now have an absolute frankenstein of a cake with metallic looking icing that is incredibly chocolatey due to the incredibly chocolatey brown bits! File