Trial Cake for Advays Birthday - Madeira Cake/3 Balloons Cake

Of all the cakes i have tried so far,i guess Madeira Cake is the best for decoration,i tried the recipe of Madeira from my Cakebook.

Recipe Name Madeira Cake

Recipe source cakebook

baking temperature 160 degree centigrade

baking time 40 mins

Ingredient needed

225gm all purpose flour

one tsp baking powder

225 gm butter

225gm caster sugar

grated rind of lemon

one tsp vanilla extract

4 eggs

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 160 degree

grease and line 20cm/8inch pan

sift all purpose flour and baking powder and keep aside

Procedure

cream the butter,keep adding caster sugar 30ml/2tbsp at a time until light and fluffy.

stir in lemon rind and vanilla extract

add the eggs one at a time ,beating for one minute after each addition

add the flour mixture and stir until just combined

pour the cake mixture into the prepared tin and tap lightly to level

bake for 40 mins till metal skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.

For the decoration,

thing needed

sugarpaste icing

royal icing

fudge frosting

marzipan

edible silver balls

how i did

slit the cake into two parts

spread fudge frosting and sandwhich both the layers

spread thin layer of royal icing on cake top

followed by sugarpaste icing

with help of marzipan shape out three balloon shape 

colour into three different colour 

place on the cake top

with royal icing pipe in thread of ballon.

This cake is off for Bake Off hosted by Stories from an Indian Kitchen 

Happy Weekend frens,cee you all soon,..:-)