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Gooey Student Mess Cake

26/6/2014

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Hello and welcome to this, the first ever proper blog post!
It is summer time and the living is easy so we decided to make a cake.
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Ingredients
  • Mars Bar (x2)
  • White Chocolate (Milky Bar)
  • 10 pieces of Tesco's pick and mix fudge
  • Banana (x1)
  • Caster Sugar (5 tablespoons)
  • Self-Raising Flour (5 tablespoons)
  • Butter (5oz)
  • 2 Eggs

The Method Behind the Madness

1) Cut the butter into chunks and add the sugar. Pop in a mixing bowl.
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Take the butter out of the fridge before you start so it is soft and easy to whiz up.
2) Break in the eggs and then blitz until it looks like this:
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I have always thought it incredibly important to be at one with the cake so at this point I would probably try a little bit to see if it tasted alright. If it is not sweet enough add a touch more sugar.

3)  Add the flour. Suggest you stir manually to start with so that it does not go all over the kitchen (that would be something of a disaster!). Add banana gradually.
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Whizzing action shot
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Cut the banana up and mix in until it looks something like this.
The Bain-Marie: Melting Chocolate

This looks and sounds french and complicated, however, do not be put off - it is dead simple.

Get a saucepan on the heat, put some boiling water in it. Put a fork in it and pop a bowl with the chocolate on top.
Back to the cake

5) You must remember to grease the baking tin otherwise it will stick and burn. Never good. 

I would advise baking paper as this avoids the crater-esque look the cake resulted in. However, we did not have any so we used butter.
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Elena doing a splendid job
6) Now cut the fudge into small squares and add to the mix.
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Perhaps at this point reflect on how it is all going and take an arty photograph:
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Note the consistency. It is quite wet. If yours looks dry, add a splash of milk!
Approaching the cake tin

This is perhaps the most exciting part of the process since you have now got a cake mix (which you should obviously have tasted). Now all that remains is to cook it.

For this cake, the Student Mess Cake, we thought we would make it even more "gungy" (by which I mean moist) by adding a Mars Bar down the middle.
Cut the Mars Bar lengthways and lie it down the middle. Ensure there is a bed of cake mix so does not burn when cooking.
Cover and fill!
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Lick the bowl out.
Cooking the cake

Put the cake in the oven at 150 degrees for about 45 minutes. Then for another 20 minutes at 180 degrees. 

Put it in the middle of the oven as the cake is quite dense and will take time to cook through.

You MUST watch the cake to make sure it does not burn. If it looks like it is, put some tin foil over the top of the cake, or if you don't have any, use another baking tin. Essentially anything that can reflect the heat a bit.

Is it cooked?

To test whether the cake is cooked, poke a knife in and if it comes out clean, it is cooked. I would say that you do not want it totally clean because I am not a fan of dry cake. Also, consider that the cake will continue to cook if it is left in the tin - even if it is no longer in the oven.
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Note the burnt edges where the round baking tin did not cover the cake.
Now tip the cake out and enjoy!


Not using baking paper meant it all got a bit stuck (see the second photo below).
On the plus side, it tasted like toffee and we spooned it back onto the cake. So not all bad!
So that's it. Cake done! Woop woop!! Hope you enjoyed reading this.
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