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Preheat oven to 150°C. Grease a deep 22cm round cake pan with melted butter. Line the base and side with 3 layers of non-stick baking paper, extending 5cm above edge. Combine the dried fruit, fruit mince, orange rind and orange juice in a large saucepan over medium low heat. Cook, stirring, for 10 minutes or until fruits soften. Remove from heat and set aside for 30 minutes to cool. Add the brandy and stir to combine. Add butter and sugar to fruit mixture and stir to combine. Add the combined flours and mixed spice and stir to combine. Add the eggs and stir until well combined. Spoon into prepared pan and smooth the surface. Lightly tap pan on bench top to settle the mixture. Arrange the almonds over the top of the cake. Bake in preheated oven for 3 hours 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into centre comes out clean, covering cake loosely with foil if over browning. Remove from oven. Brush hot cake with apricot jam. The good thing about baking an alien cake is that you get a lot of creative license to make the cake look however you want. Green tentacles, bulging eyes and other creepy features are likely to enter your mind when you think about aliens, so get creative and use those in your cake design. Add this to my Recipe Box. Make a cake that is shaped like an alien head. Aliens depicted in books and movies commonly have heads that are wide at the top and come to a point at the chin. Use a round cake to create the alien head. After the cake has baked and cooled, use a serrated knife to shape it into a point at the chin. Frost the cake with green icing, and use black frosting to create large, oblong eyes on the cake. If you want the cake to look extra creepy, place gummy worms on the cake to make it look like they are coming out of the alien's head.

You can make a beautiful cupcake tower with no cake decorating experience. Save on time and money. Mistakes don't effect a whole cake. If you're unhappy with a particular cupcake, don't use it. Make extra cupcakes for this purpose. If you are bringing cupcakes in to a catering hall, you save on the cake-cutting fee. You can offer a variety of cake flavors to your guests. You can make a small cupcake tower for each table and save the thousands of dollars spent on floral centerpieces. You can offer your guests a second helping, if you like! The cupcake tower consists of one of more different designs on the cupcakes, displayed on stacked cake boards. Even the simplest designs are enhanced by adding votives, fresh or silk flowers, or tulle alongside the cupcakes on each tier. In advance, you will need to decide on the design of your cupcake stand and the decorations you will put on the cupcakes. Birthdays, dinner parties, potlucks, office get-togethers . Choose from hundreds of test kitchen-approved recipes for every occasion. Ice cream cakes are not only impressive to look at, but they're also easier to make than you might think. Try one of these spectacular recipes, including mint chocolate chip, tiramisu, almond crunch, and more. Lightly coat an 8-inch square cake pan with cooking spray; line pan with plastic wrap, leaving a 6-inch overhang on two sides. Freeze pan at least 10 minutes. In a medium pot, combine corn syrup, 1/4 cup cream, butter, granulated sugar, cocoa, and pinch of salt; bring to a boil, whisking, over medium-high. Remove from heat and let fudge sauce cool. Meanwhile, remove 1 pint ice cream from freezer and let soften, about 15 minutes. Evenly press softened ice cream into pan. Top with a single layer of graham crackers, breaking to fit. Drizzle with 1/4 cup fudge sauce and freeze 15 minutes. Repeat twice, omitting sauce on final layer. Wrap in plastic and freeze until firm, 8 hours (or up to 3 days). Cover and refrigerate remaining fudge sauce. To serve, invert pan and run under tepid water to loosen cake. Invert onto a platter and remove plastic. Microwave fudge sauce in 30-second increments until pourable. Pour over cake and freeze to solidify, 5 minutes. In a large bowl, using a mixer, whip 1 1/2 cups cream and confectioners' sugar on high until stiff peaks form, 3 to 5 minutes. Dollop cake with whipped cream and dust with cocoa.

Create girly cupcakes to celebrate the girl in you life. Use pink or purple icing over pink strawberry or cherry cupcakes for all of your girly cupcake designs as many closely associate the color pink with girls. Talk to the girl for whom you will decorate the cupcakes to determine her favorite theme. Add this to my Recipe Box. Cartoon cupcakes have many options, especially with cartoon movies featuring princesses. Some of the princesses come from traditional fairy tales such as "Cinderella" or "Snow White," but other princesses are creations of modern movie studios. Choose your favorite princess and look for small cake decorations such as candy cupcake toppers or plastic rings featuring that princess. Place a single candy topper or ring over a pink iced cupcake. Arrange iced cupcakes into a ring the same size as a child's plastic tiara. Set the tiara on top of the ring of cupcakes for the honoree child to wear during the party to become the "princess" for the day. Place different fashion doll accessories on top of pink iced cupcakes for the honoree to use with her doll after eating the cupcakes. Set a miniature doll atop each cupcake for a doll theme. Use a larger doll by standing it in the center of a ring of cupcakes. Arrange candied or fondant flowers on top of iced cupcakes. Set a single, candied flower in the center of each cupcake, or make the top of a cupcake into a bouquet by using several small sugar flowers on top. Look for candied or fondant flowers at cake supply or craft stores.

Our favorite diabetic cake recipes are sure to please your sweet tooth and your blood sugar. We used sugar substitutes and light frostings to keep the diabetic desserts low in calories and carbs. Whether you prefer a rich chocolate cake, gorgeous berry cake, or moist coffee cake, we've got fresh, diabetes-friendly recipes that you can enjoy guilt-free! For a fun twist on the traditional red velvet cake, we filled our rolled version with light cream filling. The result: A low-calorie dessert that’s just as decadent as the original. Separate eggs. Allow egg whites and yolks to stand at room temperature 30 minutes. Meanwhile, grease a 15x10x1-inch baking pan. Line bottom of pan with waxed paper or parchment paper; grease paper. Set pan aside. In a medium bowl stir together flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder; set aside. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In a medium bowl beat egg yolks and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla with an electric mixer on high speed about 5 minutes or until thick and lemon color. Gradually add the 1/3 cup granulated sugar, beating on high speed until sugar is almost dissolved. The shoes are formed from green fondant that is rolled into oval shaped balls. Press a wooden spoon handle into one end of the oval to form the opening of the shoe. Add a round candy to the top of the shoe with frosting as decoration, if desired. Make Tinkerbell-inspired cupcakes by coating frosted cupcakes with fairy dust. Use brightly colored sugar crystals, which can usually be found on the baking supply aisle of grocery stores. Frost the cupcakes with white icing to make the sugar stand out and roll the top of the cupcake or just the edges of the cupcake in a shallow dish filled with the colored sugar. Use several different colors of sugar if desired to add bright bursts of color and tell guests that Tinkerbell sprinkled fairy dust onto the cupcakes. Surprise guests with magical fairy cupcakes by adding a few drops of food coloring to white cake batter before you bake your cupcakes. When guests break open the cupcake, a bright and colorful interior will be revealed. Paste food coloring will render brighter colors than liquid food coloring but keep in mind that the color will probably be lighter after the cupcakes are baked. You can also add colored sprinkles to the batter or press a candy into the center of each cupcake before baking for added surprise.

Find straightforward, delicious, easy sponge cake recipes that you can serve plain or dress up as you like! About this recipe: This is a recipe my mother taught me to make. A great, simple, tasty sponge cake that you can whip up in a rush using simple store cupboard ingredients. No fuss. It tastes great with or without icing, and you can serve it with almost anything. Turn this recipe into a shopping list you can print, email, view on your mobile or shop online. Set the oven to 190 C / Gas 5. Grease a 23cm round cake tin or two shallow sandwich tins. You can make this cake as an all in one method by throwing everything into a bowl and mixing it with an electric beater. If the mixture is a little dry, add a tablespoon of water or milk at a time until you get the right consistency. Alternatively, you can do this: cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add in the eggs, one at a time, taking care to beat each one in well. Slowly add the flour with a sieve.

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