We are currently a house of sickness, and I wasn't sure if I'd manage to give Big'Un a decent 11th birthday, but we just managed a day out, and came home in time to cook her fave supper of yorkshires and sausages.
While I had the yorkshires in the oven, I used the Bosch to make a quick cake mix, which I baked while we ate dinner.
I did an enriched sponge mixture - 3 of everything, - eggs, ounces of flour, caster sugar and butter, plus a spoon of baking powder. I spooned some mango puree from a can into the mix also, and baked it into my heart shaped silicone cake form. I think that takes a normal 3 egg sponge mix, looks too small to fit a 4 egg mix.
When the cake was done, out and cool, I used the Bosch again to whip up some double cream, which was done beautifully in minutes, and then I swirled through some more mango puree*.
I splodged the cream onto the cake and served the excess cream alongside for extra dolloping. We had received some fresh mangos from my aunty and also a couple from Abel and Cole, so Godpapa peeled the ripest one and we ate slices of the sweet fruit with the cake. They were the less sugary South American mangoes, so made a lovely fresh accompaniment to the cake.
Needless to say, it was a success!
*A note about mango puree - it's available from Indian shops in quite large tins. I had opened the tin and used about 2 thirds the day before to make mango lassi.
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