Baking Mad: Valentines Competition

The Ana Mum Diary was lucky enough to be picked as one of 15 blogs to be sent some products to create something that I (Amanda or for my twitter pals @gidders1) would love to receive on Valentines day.

I took some time deliberating on what I would cook for the Baking Mad Valentines competition. Once the box of goodies arrived, there were lots of things that I had never used before, so was really looking forward to trying them out.

Ok, so here’s the box of goodies I was kindly sent:

Now my favourite cake is a Victoria Sandwich, even the thought makes my mouth water. So I decided that I would make this, but include some of the products that Baking Mad sent me, to hopefully enhance it even further! All items I have used, that Baking Mad have sent me are highlighted in blue.

For the cake I used:

• 200g of caster sugar
• 200g softened butter
• 4 eggs beaten
• 200g of self raising flour
• 1tsp baking powder
• 1 Silver Spoon Create Vanilla Paste Sachet *
• 2 tbsp milk

Method:

It’s an all in one method, so really easy  You simply mix all the ingredients above until you have a smooth soft batter.

Line and grease two 20cm sandwich tins.

Divide the mixture between these tins, and smooth the surface.

Place in a preheated oven of 190 or Gas Mark 5 for approx 25 minutes.

Once these were cooled, I spread one half with Raspberry Jam.

I then added the second item from the box. Silver Spoon, Easy Melt White Chocolate*. I had already prepared this by simply putting it in half boiling, half cold water for 7 minutes. It was now ready to pour on as filling. No mess!

Once the second half of the sandwich was on, I then melted the chocolate topping, Silver Spoon Chocolate Flavour Cake Covering*. 

This was incredibly easy to do, you simply put in a microwaveable bowl for 1 minute and stir. The cake was then covered with the chocolate.  You may be able to tell by this point I love chocolate!

I thought it was worth while including this photograph, apologies it’s at a funny angle.  I was particularly impressed with the glossiness of the chocolate covering, and how easily it melted!

So the only thing left was to decorate the top. For this I used two more of the products sent to me by Baking Mad

Silver Spoon, Letters and Numbers* and Duo White Chocolate Hearts*

What do you think?

I hope that you can see how moist the cake was…it disappeared very quickly!

I would definitely recommend all of the products that I used, they were not only easy to use and mess free but absolutely delicious!

So that was what I would like for Valentines day…oh and a lovely cup of tea too!

Thank you for reading