Raa Raa The Noisy Lion Birthday Cake And Party Food
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Serves: 18
 
The cake batter filled 3 x 25cm pie pans It served 18 and were good sized portions but smaller slices would have served more guests!
Ingredients
  • *FOR THE SPONGES*
  • 375g unsalted butter
  • 375g caster sugar
  • 225ml cola
  • 300g self raising flour
  • 75g cocoa powder
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 tube of bright orange liquid gel food colouring
  • *FOR THE FROSTING & DECORATION*
  • 2 tubs Betty Crocker chocolate buttercream
  • (the boys cousin cant eat dairy and this is dairy free so just as easy to use it as make my own with dairy free spread and tastes yummy!)
  • 2 bags of Tate & Lyle orange buttons
  • 1 pink marshmallow
  • 1 packet of yellow fondant icing
  • 1 packet of orange fondant icing
  • 1 packet of black fondant icing
  • (I had left overs of all 3)
  • 1 large chocolate button
  • 4 flaked almonds
  • 2 tsp of jam, warmed slightly (I used raspberry)
Instructions
  1. Pre heat oven to 180oC / 160oC fan
  2. grease and line your cake tins
  3. melt the butter and cola in a saucepan over a low heat until melted
  4. take 2 bowls:
  5. - in one add the coca powder, half the qty of sugar and 112g of the flour
  6. - in the other add the remaining sugar and flour
  7. Beat 3 eggs into each bowl of dry ingredients
  8. divide the butter and cola mix between the two bowls
  9. Mix all the ingredients in each bowl
  10. In the bowl that does not contain the cocoa powder, all the whole tube of orange food colouring and mix again to distribute the colour in the batter
  11. Pour the batter from each bowl into the cake tins - each bowl needs to be divided between each cake tin as you want to create a marbled effect. Once the tins have been filled with the orange and chocolate batter mixes, swirl the end of a wooden spoon through the batter to create a marbled effect.
  12. Place in the oven and cook for about 30 minutes until cooked through properly and then
  13. allow to cool completely
  14. Once cooled, sandwich each sponge with the buttercream and then cover the cake with the buttercream too.
  15. Add the orange buttons around the perimeter of the cake
  16. To make the fondant face and mane, I drew around the cake pan onto grease proof paper. I then drew Raa Raa's face and ears, hair etc.. within the circle and traced all of his features onto the different coloured fondant icings (which had been rolled out) and then cut them out. I stuck them onto the buttercream using the warmed jam. The buttercream was the same colour as Raa Raa's mane so this meant I did not need a brown coloured fondant icing (phew!).
  17. I then cut a large chocolate button in half to make the eyebrows, broke 4 flaked almonds in half to make his teeth and sliced the end of a pink marshmallow to make his tongue.
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2013/04/raa-raa-the-noisy-lion-birthday-cake-and-party-food.html