We all love cake!
Last year I told you all about my first Halloween party it was held by my friend Sam and it was great fun. Tomorrow we are going to do it all again so in a tradition we seem to have created for ourselves Aaron and I had a cake to make! Last year we made a 'Pumpkin cake' and so we've been debating what we could do this year. Aaron suggested a skull but I thought we shouldn't peak too early so we went with his second idea a Ghost cake. It was a joint family effort as Leo 'helped' me bake the cake and then as usual I handed the decorating over to the arty one. Leo and I made a simple Victoria sponge mixture but as we needed a lot we tripled the standard recipe. 300g castor sugar 300g butter 6 eggs 300g self raising flour I usually cream the butter and sugar first, adding the egg then the flour gradually but Leo didn't agree with that method and chucked it all in before I could intervene, including the eggs without cracking them! I retrieved the...