Ingredients.
For the cakes:
- (140g/5oz)Unsalted butter
- 200g/7oz golden caster sugar
- 60g/2¼oz golden syrup
- 60g/2¼oz black treacle
- 300g/10½ plain flour
- 240ml/8½oz warmed milk
- 2 free range eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 1tsp ground ginger
- 1tsp nutmeg
- 2sp baking powder
- 1tsp salt
For Decoration:
- 80g/3oz Unsalted Butter
- 160g/6oz Icing Sugar
- 2tbsp cocoa powder
- Bit Chocolate buttons
- Pretzel crisps/ chocolate pretzels
- small red sweets(jelly tots or smaties are great)
- dark chocolate drops
Method.
- Set the oven for 190°C/ Gas Mark 5
- Beat the butter & sugar until light and creamy before beating in the treacle, syrup, eggs and egg yolks until all combined.
- Sift the flour, ginger,nutmeg,baking powder & salt and add half of this mixture to the butter mixture.
- After warming the milk, add half to the mixture and beat until well combined.
- Add the remaining flour & warm milk and beat again.
- Spoon the mixture into cake cases of choice- it should make about 15 cakes depending on the size.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until they are well risen and lightly firm.
- Remove once slightly cool and place on cooling rack.
- After weighing out the sugar, take out two tbsp and replace with the cocoa powder before gradually adding the mixture to the butter and creaming together to make a chocolate butter cream.
- Finally, add the butter cream, chocolate button and red sweet for the nose, pretzels for ears and chocolate drops for eyes.
Et Voila! A delicious treat for you and the family at christmas!
Are you going to be baking this christmas?
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