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Serves: 10
 
Ingredients
  • *For the 'Baps'
  • 200g Butter
  • 200g caster sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 200g self raising flour
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • *For the burger*
  • 100g self raising flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tbsp chocolate spread
  • *For the cheese, lettuce and tomato*
  • yellow, red and green fondant icing
  • *Buttercreams*
  • Chocolate Spread
  • Betty Crocker ready made coffee flavoured buttercream
  • *extras*
  • red and yellow fondant icings to make French fries and a dollop of ketchup
Instructions
  1. *To make the baps*
  2. Grease and line a 6 inch loose bottomed cake tin
  3. Pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC (fan)
  4. Beat the butter and sugar for 5 minutes until light and creamy
  5. Add the eggs, the vanilla extract/essence and a spoonful of flour and beat again for a few more minutes
  6. Fold in the remaining flour until combined
  7. Bake in the oven for approx 40-45 minutes or until cooked right through
  8. Leave to cool completely before removing from the tin
  9. *To make the burger*
  10. Grease and line 1 x 8 inch round cake tin
  11. Keep the oven at 180oC / 160oC (fan)
  12. Place all of the ingredients into a large bowl and beat well for a few minutes until combined
  13. Pour into the cake tin and bake for 20 minutes
  14. Leave to cool until cold
  15. *Preparing the sponges*
  16. Using the bottom from the loose bottomed 6 inch cake tin, cut the same sized circle from the chocolate sponge
  17. Now, cut the vanilla sponge cake . You need to make two burger bap shapes - and remove the excess domed cake from the sponge (see photos)
  18. Place the bottom bap onto a plate and coat the sides with the coffee flavoured buttercream.
  19. Next, spread some chocolate spread onto the base and then top with the burger sponge
  20. Spread with some more chocolate spread
  21. Take the yellow icing, and cut a thin square to make the melted cheese slice, and add this to the top of the burger
  22. Now take some green and red icing, roll out and cut two lettuce leaf shapes and cut out two small circles to make tomato slices, and stick to the yellow cheese, so that they overhang over the sides of the burger (see photos).
  23. Cover the top bap sponge with some more coffee buttercream, and smooth over.
  24. Add it to the cake
  25. *optional*
  26. You can make some yellow icing French fries and some red icing ketchup for added fun and decoration if you wish.
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2017/08/hamburger-cake-recipe.html