Photo: David Holifield
Birthday bug cake
10 ingredients
50 min
Serves 16
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Children will love the butterfly and ladybird decorations on this colourful cake – and you'll love its simplicity
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 ·
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