The Great Beanie Bake-Off Challenge!!!!! (updated)

Remember those roses we brought back from A Lotment on Monday?  They're opening up now in time for my birthday!  Isn't that brilliant!!

It's really horrid weather today though.  What shall we do?

I KNOW!!!!! Let's have a Bake Off Challenge!!!  Today's challenge is Cake!!!!

I love cayke - and it's the perfect challenge for a birthday!!

Right, first we measure out the self raising flour....

Then it's the same amount of castor sugar

And then sieve it all through.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Butter.  We need to measure out lots of butter....

And then chop it into the flour/sugar mix.  Andrea helped mush it all together......

Until it looked like this!

We decided to squeeze some ginger in because we have some ginger root lying about.

And three eggs.  Then all that got mushed up some more with a wooden spoon.....

Until it looked like that!!!  Then we turned on the oven and greased up a cayke tin.....

And put the cayke mix in the pan.  Which went in the oven for cooking!!!

Later on, when it had cooked, we got it out of the oven!

It came out of the tin - eventually - and there was only a little bit stuck to the tin!

Because it's my birthday cayke, I was allowed to decorate it!  So I chose a fudge topping.....

And squeezed it out over the top of the cayke with a bit of elderberry sugar on top.

Ay Viola.

Baking wiv Beanie.

Cayke.

Mine.

Yum.