Recipe For Disaster Cake

Recipe for Disaster Cake:
First cover your kitchen in melted butter - I did this by forgetting I was softening it in the oven then trying to get it out too quickly and splattering it in a Jackson Pollock-esque way all over carpet, self and cupboards.
Measure your ingredients completely wrongly.
Take many phone calls while cooking, this always hinders the process.
Use too many eggs - I had been blowing eggs for the girls to decorate so I just had to guess at the right amount of yellowy slop. I guessed the wrong amount of yellowy slop.
Use a too-small cake tin.
Put marzipan on too early - this has a two-fold disaster result 1) slows down cake cooking time causing the bottom to harden into enedible rock 2) marzipan burns.
When putting the finishing touches to your disaster cake be sure to touch the marzipan before it has cooled, thus bringing away a layer of marzipan creating a rubbish-looking-marzipan effect*, at the same time as burning your fingertips.

I, thankfully, did not create a Catastrophe Cake today (unlike the time I foolishly believed the "sugar" label on a jar of salt) the middle of the fruit cake layer was really quite good and yummy so here is the recipe:

1 orange, chopped finely or pureed
170g butter
100g caster sugar
100g brown sugar
3 eggs
100g
125g almond meal
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground cloves
350g dried fruit


Grease and flour a 23 centimetre cake tin
Preheat the oven to 170C.
Cream the butter and sugars
Mix in the eggs and the pureed orange
Add the flour, almond meal, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and ground cloves, and mix well
Add the dried fruit, and mix
Bake the cake until a skewer inserted comes out with moist crumbs (hour to hour and a half)

Hope you make Yummy Yumster Cake xx faerie xx

*technical term meaning marzipan that looks not really that good.