69. STAR AND MOON CAKE


Before you begin:

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Check with Mum or Dad that you are allowed to cook.
So the food doesn’t get any germs wash your hands with warm soapy water and dry them well.
Read the recipe through before you begin and get out all the equipment and ingredients you will need.
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Makes: 1 large cake and 3 small stars.
Serves approximately 20.

Here’s what you need:
• 2 x 470g packet butter cake mixes
• 50g melted butter
• 1quantity butter icing- see recipe in Fairy Castle Cake
• Liquorice straps cut into strips
• Red piping jell
• 2 marshmallows, 4 chocolate coated liquorice bullets, 2 chocolate freckles
• Lolly snakes and spiders
• Red piping gel
• Amount of sparklers relevant to child’s age

Here’s how to do it:
Prepare cake mixes following packet directions. Stir both cake mixes together and fill 2/3 of the mixture into a 27cm x 36cm oblong baking paper lined baking dish. Pour remainder into 3 star shape cake tins or into a 28cm x 18cm slice pan (you will have to cut out stars if you use this pan). Bake large cake for approximately 45 minutes and the star cakes for 30 minutes.

Setting Up Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time:
20–25 minutes

HOT TIP: If you are really out of time a large cooked slab cake can be bought from the supermarket.

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