Yesteday was Sam's birthday so Chris and I got out our mixing bowl and cake tins and a bunch of other cooking equipment and ingredients and got to baking a birthday cake. We went with the same Victoria sponge as we used for our Norway Day cake, but tried out a new buttercream vanilla icing. As it was Sam's cake we also decorated it with the Stoke City badge using writing icing. It was a bit tricky but I think it looks good enough and no one had any trouble working out what it was. I think it had an amateurish charm to it and it tasted super yummy! It got sliced up during his party and lots of people commented on how much they liked it, so I'd say it was a hit!
The recipe is
this cake as before.
The decoration was Dr Oetker writing icing, which you can buy in any supermarket.
This is how to make the icing:
1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
3 cups (around 350g) icing sugar
4 tablespoons evaporated milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
Cream the butter. Add the icing sugar, evaporated milk and vanilla and mix until smooth. Smooth over the cake and leave for around five or ten minutes before decorating with the writing icing. Then put it in the fridge for at least 20 minutes before gobbling it all up!
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