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Make your own choccie This Easy Method: flavours such as vanilla or cocoa. recipe is perfect for the 1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Ingredients: first-time cook. Make sure you Celsius (160 degrees Celsius ᔡ 200g butter, softened have an adult supervise. fan-forced). Grease and flour or ᔡ 2½ cups icing mixture line a 24cm cake tin and set ᔡ 2 tablespoons milk Easy Chocolate Cake aside. Ingredients: 2. Place all ingredients into a Method: ᔡ 1 cup self-raising flour (sifted) bowl and, using a mixer, mix on 1. With an electric mixer, beat the 1 ᔡ ⁄3 cup cocoa (sifted) high for 4 minutes. butter until it is pale and fluffy ᔡ 1 cup caster sugar 3. Pour into cake tin and bake for 2. Use the milk at the end to thin 1 ᔡ ⁄3 cup butter (softened) 35-40 minutes or until the cake the mixture. You will notice it ᔡ ½ cup milk springs back when lightly makes it puff up. ᔡ 2 eggs (lightly beaten) touched in the centre. 3. Gradually beat in the icing Simple Buttercream Icing mixture, half a cup at a time. Most celebrations in life include the eating of cake. Heather Zubek Want to ice your cake? Try this puts on the kettle and brings out her best china so she can enjoy a easy recipe for Simple Source: Created by Jennifer delicious journey through the world of cakes. Buttercream Icing. You can add Cheung for Kidspot Kitchen. Did you know? The idea of having cakes eaten to ake some flour, sugar, eggs TYPES OF CAKES celebrate birthdays has been around since Let’s eat cake! and butter, mix them with Cakes are divided into different ancient Roman times when flat circular Penn, 12 of Perth, Did you Tsome cocoa, vanilla or even types, mainly based on their “cakes” made from flour and nuts and has been baking cakes since know? fresh fruit, and after some time in ingredients and the way they are sweetened with were eaten. But it she was six years old. ED! an oven, you have cake: the mixed. wasn’t until the 15th century that the caught up with her and asked In Ancient Rome, the about her yummy hobby. sweetest part of life’s celebrations. Butter cakes are the type of “modern” was born in made from cake used for birthday cakes and wheat or barley, was Germany, when bakeries began selling ED!: What was the first cake LET’S EAT KAKA! even wedding cakes. you baked by yourself? broken over the bride’s cakes for customers’ celebrations. The earliest cakes were actually They are made from creamed Charlotte: My first attempt at head in order to bring bread that was sweetened with butter, sugar, eggs and flour. baking a fruit cake good luck to the couple. honey and nuts. The term “cake” Sponge cakes, sometimes called Cakes on Show (using my nan’s recipe) by goes as far back as the Vikings, foam cakes, get their volume from With the IGA Perth Royal Show myself was when I was around eight. from the Old Norse word “kaka”. the beaten eggs rather than the use just around the corner, ED! chats I decorated it with The ancient Greeks called cake, of baking powder. These cakes do with one of the judges who has the tough job of deciding which and made a fondant snowman plakous which is taken from the not contain butter. Sponge cakes and snowflakes using special word plakoeis, meaning flat. In cakes wins a prize. Rochelle Bridesmaids would sleep with pieces are believed to be the oldest type of Smith has been part of the IGA shape cutters. ancient Rome, basic bread dough of wedding cake under their pillow to cake made without yeast. Perth Royal Show’s judging team ED!: Why do you like it so dream of their future husband was mixed with butter, eggs and for the past seven years. honey creating a cake-like loaf. CAKES FOR EVERY much? The most expensive wedding cake cost ED!: Have you always liked Charlotte: Surprisingly, I don’t over $41 million. The cake was created During the Middle Ages, only CELEBRATION baking? A three-tier really eat cake but enjoy being in New York and was covered in the very wealthy ate sweet baked Cakes can also be classified Rochelle: Yes, always, I loved creative with the decorating wedding cooking with my Nana when I diamonds and jewels. goods similar to the cakes we have according to the occasion they are cake. side of baking. I like baking for was a little Vegemite. She was a today. During the 15th century in celebrating. . Picture: Iain Gillespie Picture: family birthdays, special A slice of the Duke and Duchess of great teacher, very patient. My Windsor’s 1937 wedding cake was sold Britain, people began to enjoy Getty Images holidays, decorating Christmas WEDDING CAKES favourite thing to make were her gingerbread houses or just for nearly $30,000 in 1998. eating sweet dough made from apricot balls, they were the most cream and butter. Baking no The wedding cake is generally from to a chocolate cooking with my friends and mud cake covered in multicoloured delicious treats, sooo yummy. making a mess. longer belonged to the upper served at the wedding reception Just thinking about them makes icing and real flowers. classes during the 16th and 17th after the main dinner. Sometimes my mouth water. ED!: If you could bake a cake centuries, so more people began elaborate and often having many In some parts of America, two ED!: Your favourite cake to for anyone in the world, to bake and eat cakes and . tiers, or levels, designs for wedding cakes are presented at the bake and eat? who would it be? People enjoyed eating cakes cakes have changed greatly over the wedding: a bride’s cake and a Rochelle: Gosh, that’s a hard Charlotte: If I could bake for one. So many great cakes out anyone in the world it would filled with butter, cream and years. groom’s cake. The groom’s cake is there. I love cooking ; be JK Rowling as she is my raisins but they were very ‘stodgy’ For many years, wedding cakes generally a dark cake like chocolate, and decorated in the shape of a it’s a cake that has equal hero. I would bake her a red and heavy. It was during this time were tiers of fruit cakes topped with measures of butter, sugar, eggs velvet cake and decorate it hobby or favourite sports team. that recipe books and cake tins white and icing. It was and flour. You can then add any with a Harry Potter-themed made an appearance. It wasn’t when Queen Victoria used white flavours you like. Once you unicorn. until the 19th century, with the icing on her wedding cake that the follow the basic rules it’s a ED!: What three tips would introduction of baking powder, icing was called “royal icing”. Today, creative cake to bake. I also love a good carrot cake. you give to young people that cakes become lighter. the wedding cake can be anything ED!: What do you look for wanting to start baking? when judging a cake? Charlotte: Rochelle: There are four things 1. Carefully follow recipes, Around the World in Five Cakes! to look for: overall appearance, especially with measurements and cooking times. texture, fragrance/aroma and Rochelle Smith, right. FIRST STOP GERMANY MEXICO early 1900s, the flavour. 2. Have fun with decorating The Black Forest Cake is called The is not for Postre Chaja is ED!: Do you have a checklist using fondant, edible glitter, Schwarzwalderkirschtorte in those who have problems named after the that you need to “tick off”? food colouring and being as Germany and not named after the digesting milk. Tres Leches, chaja, a South Rochelle: Yes, we have a judging artistic as you can. country’s famous Black Forest meaning three milks, is a very light American bird. The sheet for each cake so we can 3. Wait until the cake has region. The cake is named after sponge cake soaked in a mixture of original recipe for the write down comments, good or completely cooled before icing one of its ingredients: cherry condensed milk, evaporated milk cake remains a secret with bad, and scores. This helps if we — otherwise the buttercream brandy. This chocolate sponge and regular milk. It is then layered the family which invented it. have a couple of cakes that are will melt! cake with cream and cherries was with a coat of whipped cream. contenders for the top prize. invented in 1915. JAPAN ED!: Have there been times URUGUAY Lovers of the Japanese anime when the taste was “off” or ‘Wait until Did you know? MALAYSIA Looking a little like the we character Doraemon would just dreadful? the cake Baking powder is a mixture Fancy eating a bright green cake? Australians love for dessert, the recognise the Dorayaki. This cake Rochelle: Unfortunately, yes. of acid and alkali which, The is a “chiffon Postre Chaja is a Uruguayan cake is the cartoon robot cat’s biggest Sometimes the best-looking has . . . when mixed with water, cake” (light sponge cake) infused made with layers of cake, cream obsession. The Dorayaki is a cakes taste horrible. Generally releases carbon dioxide gas with the juice of the pandanus and a peach encased in a shell of sponge filled with anko, speaking, dreadful tastes come cooled into dough. These bubbles palm. . Invented during the a sweet azuki red bean paste. from one of the ingredients before expand as the dough cooks, being tainted, stale or rancid, or causing it to rise and the an overpowering flavour. A variety of cakes on show. icing.’ resulting cake to be lighter. Picture: Getty Images