Starry toffee cake squares

Name: Starry toffee cake squares
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 200 grams butter, plus extra for greasing; 200 grams golden syrup; 300 grams self-raising flour; 200 grams light muscovado sugar; 3 mediums eggs; 2 Tbsps milk; 4 Tbsps icing sugar; 454 grams half a pack yellow marzipan; 1 serving red and green food colouring

If you have roughly 1 hour and 30 minutes to spend in the kitchen, Starry toffee cake squares might be an outstanding lacto ovo vegetarian recipe to try. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 268 calories, 4g of protein, and 13g of fat. This recipe serves 24. A mixture of icing sugar, food colouring, self-raising flour, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. It works well as an affordable dessert.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to fan 140C/ conventional 160C/gas

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Oven

Grease the sides of a Swiss roll tin, about 32cm x 23cm x 2cm, with butter.

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Butter

Roll

Place the tin on a sheet of non-stick baking parchment and draw round it with a pencil.

Cut along this line so you are left with a piece of parchment the same size as the tin base. Press it into the tin.

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Base

Put the butter and syrup into a small saucepan. (If possible, place the pan on some scales first and note the weight before pouring in the syrup). Gently warm the pan over a low heat until the butter has completely melted, then stir well to combine.

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Butter

Syrup

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Sauce Pan

Frying Pan

Remove from the heat and cool for about 15 minutes.

Tip the flour into a large bowl with 1 tsp salt. Stir in the muscovado sugar with a wooden spoon. Beat in the cooled syrup and butter until mixed. If you find this hard to do, ask an adult to help.Crack the eggs into a jug.

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Muscovado Sugar

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Syrup

Egg

Salt

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Wooden Spoon

Bowl

Pour in the milk and beat with a fork. Now pour this into the bowl with the flour and sugar and stir until the mixture is smooth.

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All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Milk

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Bowl

Pour the mixture into the tin and tap gently on the work surface to level it. Put it on a baking sheet larger than the tin.

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Baking Sheet

Bake for 40-50 minutes until risen and firm in the centre. Check the cake is ready by getting an adult to press it with their finger. It should be firm and springy.

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Oven

Ask an adult to remove the tin from the oven, then leave it to cool for 10 minutes. Use a round-bladed knife to trim any cake that has come over the sides. Run the knife inside the sides of the cake tin, tip the cake onto a wire cooling rack and leave for 2 hours or until cold. Then slide the cake onto a board and trim off the four edges so you have a 30cm x 20cm rectangle.

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Wire Rack

Cake Form

Knife

Oven

Cut lengthways into 5cm wide strips.

Mix half the icing sugar in a cup with a drop of warm water to a thick paste, using a teaspoon. Set aside. Sift a little icing sugar onto a worktop and divide the marzipan into three.

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Powdered Sugar

Marzipan

Water

Roll each piece into a ball. Make a dent with your thumb in one of the balls and, using a cocktail stick, drip in a few drops of red colouring. Knead the ball until evenly coloured. Repeat with a second ball and green colouring. Leave the third ball plain. If you dont want to get the colour on your hands,wear clean kitchen gloves.

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Cocktail

Roll

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Cocktail Sticks

Dust some more icing sugar onto the worktop and roll out the balls to the thickness of a 1 coin. Using a small star cutter (or try other shapes, such as holly), stamp out eight stars in each colour. Dab a blob of icing on each shape and stick six along each cake strip.

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Powdered Sugar

Icing

Roll

Cut between them to make 24 squares.

Dust the top of the cakes with the rest of the icing sugar. Arrange on paper plates, covered in cling film, or in pretty boxes.

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Powdered Sugar

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Servings:

200grams

butter, plus extra for greasing 200grams

golden syrup 300grams

self-raising flour 200grams

light muscovado sugar 3mediums

eggs 2Tbsps

milk 4Tbsps

icing sugar 454grams

half a pack yellow marzipan 1serving

red and green food colouring

Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Moscato Dasti, Port

Cream Sherry, Moscato d'Asti, and Port are my top picks for Cake. A common wine pairing rule is to make sure your wine is sweeter than your food. Delicate desserts go well with Moscato d'Asti, nutty desserts with cream sherry, and caramel or chocolate desserts pair well with port. You could try NV Solera Cream Sherry. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.5 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 17 dollars per bottle.