How to bake: THE HULK
Ingredients:
- Cake Tin(s)
- 4oz Self Raising Flour
- 4oz Caster Sugar
- 4oz Butter (Half a regular bar of butter)
- 2/3 Medium(ish) eggs depending on consistency of mixture
- 1 Tub of Betty Crocker Buttercream Icing (Vanilla)
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- Black Food Colouring (For his hair)
- Green Food Colouring (Add more as you see it changing – Look at my photo’s for reference :) )
How to make the cake:
1. Pre-heat your oven to about 220°C (you’re best doing this now so that you’re not faffing around after the cake mixture is done)
2. Take half of the Betty Crocker icing out of the tub and put it in a bowl, start adding the black food colouring into it (add the colouring little by little until you have a very dark grey icing – only use half though, because the other half will need to be kept white for the cake filling.)
3. Put the black icing into the fridge – After you’ve added a fair bit of food colouring to it, the consistency has gone a little bit sloppy, so do this now so that the icing has time to reform some of its consistency.
4. Weigh out the flour, sugar and butter. (4oz of each)
5. Sieve the flour and sugar into the bowl and then throw in butter, add 2 eggs and start mixing (i did this the retro way, with a wooden spoon, none of that electric whisk rubbish).
6. Make sure that the mixture is really smooth, no bubbles at all. If the mixture is too stodgy or thick then add another egg to loosen it up.
7. When you have your mixture perfect, add in the baking powder and vanilla extract.
8. THE FUN PART – Start adding in the green food colouring (little by little) and mixing it in. Make sure you’re not leaving big dark areas while mixing.
9. Shift the green hulky mixture into the cake tins and bang them in the oven for about 20minutes on 200°C
(keep checking them though to make sure they’re rising properly). They should come out looking something like this.
10. Give it a few minutes to cool down before you take them out of the cake tins. Then tip them out onto a plate.
11. Start knifing the the white icing filling onto the top of one of the cakes until you have a sufficient filling amount, and then place the top of the cake onto the filling so that you have your sandwich.
12. Take the black icing out of the fridge (by now it should’ve started to set a little bit) and cover the entire cake until it looks like this.
13. Throw it back in the fridge for a while until the black icing has set.
14. Make a brew and cut that cake
15. Take a picture of it and send it over to me :) imadeahulkcake@planetperki.co.uk.
Cheers everyone, hope you all make one and send them over to me so that i can see what mental creations you bake! :D
Perki
xx