Desserts Recipes - Children's Birthday Cake Recipe

  
 

Desserts Recipes - Children's Birthday Cake Recipe

Ingredients

Serves 10-12

  • 275g/10oz butter (plus extra for greasing)

  • 275g/10oz caster sugar

  • 5 eggs

  • 350g/12oz self-raising flour

  • Grated zest of 2 oranges

Method:

  1. Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/Gas mark 3. Grease a 3.6 liter/6pt ovenproof glass mixing bowl and line the base with baking parchment.

  2. Beat together the butter, sugar, eggs, flour and orange zest. Turn into the bowl and level the surface. Bake for 1 hour 10 minutes until just firm.

  3. Loosen from  the bowl with a knife, then turn out and leave to cool on a wire rack.

  4. This is the perfect base cake for brightly colored icing for a children's birthday.