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Birthday bug cake
Photo: David Holifield

Birthday bug cake

10 ingredients 50 min Serves 16 openrecipes
Birthday bug cake

Children will love the butterfly and ladybird decorations on this colourful cake – and you'll love its simplicity

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

167
Calories
1g
Protein
9g
Fat
18g
Carbs

Counts 2 of 5 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 2 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Chocolate 1 oz (28g) semisweet 155
Vanilla 1 tsp extract (4ml) 12
Cake not in our table 0
Syrup not in our table 0
Icing not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • Easy vanilla cake and syrup mix (see recipe below)
  • 100g white chocolate (I used Milkybar)
  • Basic vanilla buttercream mix (see Easy vanilla cake recipe below)
  • 12 giant chocolate buttons , 6 cut in half
  • treat-size pack chocolate buttons
  • 2 chocolate sticks (I used Matchmakers)
  • hundreds and thousands
  • multicoloured candles
  • red (or whatever colour you like) writing icing tubes (I used Asda)
  • multicoloured candles

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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