Recipe

Beach babes

Feb 28, 2011 1:00pm
  • 5 mins preparation
  • 20 mins cooking
  • Makes 12 Item
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Ingredients

Beach babes
  • 1 cup (150g) self-raising flour
  • 90 gram butter, softened
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup (110g) caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoon milk
Buttercream
  • 125 gram butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 cup (240g) icing sugar
  • 2 tablespoon milk
  • 2 tablespoon cocoa powder

Method

Beach babes
  • 1
    Preheat oven to 180ºC (160ºC fan-forced). Line eight holes of 12-hole (⅓-cup/80ml) muffin pan with paper cases.
  • 2
    Sift flour into small bowl, add remaining ingredients; beat with electric mixer on low speed until ingredients are combined. Increase speed to medium; beat until mixture is smooth and changed to a paler colour.
  • 3
    Divide mixture into paper cases. Bake about 20 minutes. Stand cakes in pan for 5 minutes before turning, top-side up, onto wire rack to cool.
  • 4
    To make buttercream, beat butter in small bowl with electric mixer until as white as possible; beat in sifted icing sugar and milk, in two batches. (To make chocolate buttercream, sift 2 tablespoons cocoa powder in with the icing sugar). Ice cakes according to directions of chosen cakes.
  • 5
    Smooth a generous amount of buttercream over top of cake. Sprinkle with brown sugar. Using a small sharp knife, thinly slice a small piece from a licorice allsort to make beach mat; top with jelly baby. Gently push paper cocktail umbrella into cake.

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