Ingredients
The following ingredients have 4 Servings
- 125 g butter
- 125 g sugar
- 125 g self-raising flour
- 2 eggs (at room temperature)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 120 g cream cheese
- 200 g green candy melts
- 30 g red candy melts
- Mini smarties or similar sweets for the caterpillar eyes and nose
- 200 g Red ready to roll icing
- 200 g Green ready to roll icing
Instruction
- Make the fruit shapes first. Roll out the icing and cut out the right fruit shapes. Use the side of a fork or something similar to make marks on the strawberries to look like seeds. Leave them to dry out on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
- Next make the cake. Cream the butter and sugar together. Beat in the vanilla.
- Add a third of the flour and an egg and beat in. Add another third of flour and an egg and beat in. Add the remaining flour. Beat in.
- Grease and line a 17cm cake tin. Bake in the oven at 160 for 40-50 minutes. Check with a skewer after 40 minutes. If it comes out clean it's ready, if not bake for a little longer.
- Let the cake cool completely on a wire rack.
- Crumble the cake into a large mixing bowl so it resembles breadcrumbs. Use your hands to mix in the cream cheese to form a cookie dough consistency. If its too dry you may need a little more cream cheese.
- Form the dough into balls and put in the freezer until you're ready for the next step.
- Melt the candy melts in the microwave or over a saucepan.
- Roll the cake balls quickly in the melted candy melts and put them on a baking tray lined with baking paper to dry. If the bowl of melted candy melts starts to solidify then just pop it back in the microwave for a minute.
- Stick the eyes on the red cake ball as soon as you make it.
- Then use a little bit of the brown ready-to-roll icing to make the caterpillar's antenna and just stick them on top of the cake ball. You can do this when it has dried.
- When ready to serve, use some of the cake balls to prop the fruit shapes up and the rest to make a caterpillar shape.
