So tomorrow is our son Zachie’s 4th birthday, we had a party for him today at Hays Paddock, a fantastic park in Kew East, there is an enclosed section which has an adventure playground and loads of room to run around, there are a couple of ovals as well just to make sure there is enough space for just about everyone!
It’s autumn here in Melbourne and we had a glorious day of sunshine & cool breezes without a cloud in the sky. I saw a cake similar to the design I made and always thought it’d be great for our boy who loves everything to do with trucks and construction.
You will need
250g Butter
400g Sugar
250g Self Raising Flour
50g Cocoa
1 tsp Vanilla
200ml Milk
4 Eggs
Pre heat your oven to 170 degrees Celsius.
Cream the butter & sugar until it’s light and fluffy, add the eggs one by one beating well in between. Sift the flour & cocoa and add to the mix, while slowly beating pour in the milk, mix well for about a minute and ensure it’s all combined.
Grease & line a 26 cm spring form or round tin, pour the batter into prepared tin and bake at 170 degrees Celsius for approx 40 mins or until a skewer comes out clean. Allow to stand in the tin for 5 mins or so and then remove and allow to cool completely.
You could leave it at that, but I made some chocolate butter icing, for which you’ll need 250g butter softened, 3 cups pure icing sugar and a tablespoon of cocoa, make sure you sift the icing sugar to remove all the lumps and add to the butter after you have creamed it and it’s light and fluffy, also add the cocoa.
I used violet crumbles & small snickers bars as the rocks, violet crumble is chocolate covered honeycomb.
Enjoy & happy happy birthday my darling boy – I love you right up to the moon and back and up again and back! xxx Mumma
Very cute cake!
Thats adorable!