Party Food... Ghoulish Ghost Cakes
You will need:
(Makes 10 individual ghost cakes)
* 100g (4 oz) soft margarine
* 100g (4 oz) caster sugar
* 1 tsp finely grated lemon rind
* 100g (4 oz) self-raising flour (sifted)
* 2 eggs
* 1 tsp pure vanilla essence
* 450g (1 lb) white ready-to-roll icing
* 1 tube black writing icing
What to do:
1. Pre-heat the oven to 180oC/350oF/gas 4.
2. Cream together the margarine, sugar and lemon rind until light and fluffy.
3. Beat in the eggs one at a time with the vanilla essence.
4. Fold in the flour.
5. Bake in a greased dariole or timbale mould for 20-25 minutes.
6. Leave to cool on a wire tray.
7. Roll out the icing thinly on a clean work surface dusted with icing sugar and cut into circles of about 18 cm (7 in) diameter.
8. Drape these over the cakes and add eyes and noses with black writing icing. Spooktastic!
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