In which I bake another, more ambitious, MRI scanner cake...
The ISBE annual BBQ was on Friday so I had to once again attempt to bake an MRI scanner cake. I decided to go for a more realistic one than previously.
The basic cake is made using Delia's All-in-one Sponge recipe and then things get a little crazy as I make 4 of them.[1]
Ingredients
- 32 oz (880 g) self raising flour
- 8 tsp baking powder
- 32 oz (880 g) margarine
- 32 oz (880 g) caster sugar
- 16 large eggs
- 8 tbsp cocoa powder
- strawberry jam
- 2 kg ready made fondant icing
- black writing icing
- white designer icing tube
- 8 chocolate rice krispie squares
- icing sugar
Recipe
I split the mixture into two batches and made 2 cakes each time.
- Add the rest of the ingredients.
- Whisk together with an electric whisk.
- Put into greased 9" round baking tins.
- Bake for 45 mins to an hour until a skewer comes out clean.
- Leave cakes to cool.
- Use jam to stick the bottom 2 cakes together.
- Cut a hole out of the two, top cakes using a pastry cutter.
- Use jam to stick these two cakes to the top.
- Use bamboo sticks to hold the cake together.
- Use designer icing to fill any gaps where the cake has fallen apart.
- Roll out two circles of icing slightly larger than the cake tin used to bake the cakes.
- Use jam to stick icing to bottom and top of cake.
- Roll out more icing and use jam to stick it to the outside of the cake.
- Make a small square of icing to use as a scanner bed.
- Use designer icing to stick together two rice krispie squares for each foot.
- Use bamboo sticks to stick feet to the bottom of the scanner.
- Put the scanner onto it's feet and decorate with your favoured scanner manufacturer's logos.
- Enjoy!
Annoyingly this did start to give way though it did make it to the BBQ in one piece. Next year I'll make a better, less collapse-y cake :)
Tom Out!
[1] Delia Smith (2005). Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course. 2nd ed. London: BBC Books. 640 pages.