Tom gates book cake and Harry's birthday.

I thought I’d make something a little different for Harry’s birthday ,A Tom gates book cake and Harry’s birthday.

Harry is in to his books at the moment and I thought of diary of a wimpy kid and then came upon the idea of tom gates. I am no cake queen and this will be only the second cake I’ve ever iced but it’s a challenge and I promised Harry .
So I’ll let you know a bit about the trials and errors of an amateur cake maker.

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First things first make the cake, I have a 10inch tin which I thought I would use and make two cakes , sand which them together and then trim them.

So to do one half of a sand which in a 10 inch square Tin I used

4 eggs

250gr self raising flour

250gr caster sugar

250gr butter

1 tsp baking bowser

1 tsp vanilla esscence

50 grams cocoa

Few splashes of milk to get a nice consistency.

I made two half filled them with chocolate butter cream and trimmed them down once they were cooled off in the fridge.

I then made a chocolate ganache which I heated using the microwave, and coated the cake . After refrigerating the cake I used a hot spatula too smooth it out before icing.