Canadian Cake

As you can see, I made a canadian flag cake. For my sister. She wanted one, so I decorated it just like this. The cake is a basic one-egg chocolate cake that I got out of the edmunds recipe cook book.

The recipe.

50 g butter

1 Tbsp golden syrup

1 egg

1/2 cup sugar

1 Tbsp cocoa

1 cup plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

few drops vanilla essence

1 tsp baking soda

3/4 cup milk

Melt butter and syrup in the microwave. Put melted ingredients into a bowl. Add egg and sugar and beat well. Sift cocoa, flour and baking powder together. Fold sifted ingredients and vanilla into egg mixture. Dissolve baking soda in milk. Fold into egg mixture. Pour mixture into a greased and lined cake tin. Bake at 190 degrees celsius for 30 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched. Leave in tin for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack. 

                                    

To decorate it I used, again, the ready made white fondant. And laid it onto the cake. For the maple leaf and the red stripes, I decided to paint them with red food coloring and a small paint brush. In the end, I thought the leaf looked really good and I decided to also border the cake with some icing, with which I used an icing pen thing that did the trick. My sister undoubtedly loved it and had an awesome 19th.