BIRTHDAY CAKE

Most of the parents will agree with me, that there is not many things which give more joy than seeing their happy kids...

Today our Firstborn – Daniel is two years old.

For that special occasion together with Thomas we decided to make Tractor-Cake.  Who knows Daniel, can confirm, that he is absolutely mad about those vehicles...

Cake itself was made of chocolate sponge and banana cream (for grass we used green food colouring).  Tractor (also made of sponge) we covered with marzipan (as we are not big fans of icing).

Quite long time I was looking for good receipt for chocolate sponge – fluffy and moist at the same time...  Finally I found the one:

8 eggs

150 g plain flour

150 g sugar

2 teaspoons corn or potato starge

Pinch of salt

Lemon jest (out of 1 lemon)

2 table spoons coco powder (if you want more rich and darker you can put even up to 8 teable spoons coco powder).

1 teaspoon baking powder

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Whisk the eggs, sugar, salt and lemon jest in a mixing bowl. Butter the mold you want to use and dust it off with plain flour. Start weighing out your other ingredients while the egg mix is whisking. When done this the egg mix should be ready and have a stiff consistency, so when you take out the whisk there should be a hole in the middle. Sieve all dry ingredients, so there be no lumps. Fold the dry ingredients slowly with a rubber spatula under the egg mix. Doesn’t matter if it isn’t completely mixed, because it will sort itself by pouring into the mold and spreading it out. Pour the mix in the ready mould, spread it evenly and put into the preheated oven on the middle shelve. Depending on the depth of the mould, the sponge will take appr. 20 to 30 min.

This is the result of our work:

And this is Daniel’s reaction when he saw the cake – for us absolutely priceless...

..... and then he cut it.....