Humpty Dumpty Birthday Cake

Name: Humpty Dumpty Birthday Cake
Ingredients: 12 eggs; A square cake tin, deep and large (for the wall); 24 oz soft margarine or butter; 24 oz self-raising flour; Two shallow sandwich-cake tins; 24 oz caster sugar; 3 tbsp hot water; A pudding basin (for Humpty)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Settler's Cookbook

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Published 2009

About

You need a lot of cake for this, and much will end up as scrap – good to eat with sips of tea for an awfully long time. Still the thing itself is a work of naive art.

Ingredients

24 oz self-raising flour
24 oz soft margarine or butter
3

Cake
Birthday
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Baking

Method

Grease and flour well the tins and basin, particularly the latter as the shape needs to be intact when you take the cake out.
With a small electric beater, beat all the cake ingredients until they are well mixed. When the mixture is the right consistency, it should drop down slowly from a spoon.
Pour into the tins and basin and bake at 375°F, 190°C, gas