Recipe

Bales of hay

Mar 31, 2011 1:00pm
  • 30 mins preparation
  • 1 hr 30 mins cooking
  • Makes 12 Item
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Ingredients

Bales of hay
  • 3 x 440g (14-ounce) packets butter cake mix
  • yellow food colouring
  • 6 rainbow sour straps
  • 8 x 25g (¾-ounce) packets ready-to-eat noodles
  • toy chickens
Butter cream
  • 125 gram (4 ounces) butter
  • 1 1/2 cup (240g) confectioner's sugar
  • 2 tablespoon milk

Method

Bales of hay
  • 1
    Preheat oven to 170°C (150°C fan-forced). Grease pan; line base and sides with baking paper, extending paper 5cm (2 inches) above sides.
  • 2
    Make cakes according to directions on packets. Spread mixture into pan; bake about 1½ hours. Stand cake in pan 10 minutes before turning, top-side up, onto wire rack to cool.
  • 3
    Level cake top; trim cake into three 5cm x 10cm (2-inch x 4-inch) rectangles. Using a small serrated knife cut `V'-shaped indents into the middle of each piece of cake.
  • 4
    To make butter cream; beat butter until white as possible, gradually beat in half the sifted icing sugar then milk, then remaining icing sugar. Beat until smooth. Tint butter cream pale yellow; spread all over cakes.
  • 5
    Break noodles into pieces; roll cakes firmly in broken noodles until covered all over.
  • 6
    Cut the red stripes off the rainbow straps. Using picture as a guide, trim and position red straps around the hay bales. Secure two hay bales, side-by-side, on cake board with a little butter cream. Position remaining hay bale on top. Decorate with toy chickens.

Notes

EQUIPMENT deep 22cm (9-inch) square cake pan 25cm (10-inch) square cake board. While it is cute, it's best to serve this to older children as the small noodles can be a choking hazard for younger children. Using a small serrated knife cut ‘V’-shaped indents into the middle of each piece of cake.

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