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Mini Mushroom Cakes

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Delicious morsels of chocolate cake, cunningly disguised as mushrooms!

Ingredients

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For the Cake

  • 75g dark (70%) chocolate
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • 125g self-raising flour
  • pinch of salt
  • 100g butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 250g packet of ready to roll Marzipan, I used Blackwood Lane
  • 3 tbsp sour cherry (or your favourite flavour) jam

Icing

  • 50g butter
  • 100g icing sugar, sifted
  • 25g dark chocolate melted in 2 tsp hot milk

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 190*C.
  2. Grease and flour your cupcake cases
  3. Melt the chocolate in the milk over a gentle flame. Leave to cool.
  4. Sift the flour, salt and cinnamon together.
  5. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
  6. Add the eggs one at a time with a spoonful of flour in between.
  7. Add the chocolate milk mixture then another spoon of flour.
  8. Once that is mixed in, fold in the remaining flour.
  9. Pour the mixture into the prepared cupcake cases, place in the oven and bake for around 20 minutes until risen and a skewer comes out clean.
  10. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
  11. Roll out the marzipan to about 3mm thick. Flatten an empty cupcake case and use as a template to cut circles out of the marzipan.
  12. Melt the jam over a low heat then spread it over the top and sides of each cupcake.
  13. Then drape the marzipan circles over the top and sides of each cupcake. You may need to trim the edges so they are flush with the edges of the cake.
  14. Turn the cake upside down so the marzipan layer is now on the bottom.
  15. Roll the scraps of marzipan into a long thin stip. Spread this with the cherry jam and roll up lengthways so you now have a long thin roll.
  16. Cut this into smaller pieces to make the mushroom stalks. Set these aside for the moment.
  17. To make the icing, cream together the butter and sugar then gradually beat in the melted chocolate. Beat well then chill until the mixture is firm.
  18. Pipe or spread on top of each cake marking into grooves to resemble the gills of a mushroom.
  19. Place the stalk in the centre.
  20. Enjoy!

Notes

  • The number of cakes you will get will depend on the size of your cupcake liners.

Nutrition

Find it online: https://www.retrofoodformoderntimes.com/2015/06/05/birthday-mushroom-cake/