Cereal Milk Cornflake Cake
Ingredients
250 g margarine
250 g light-brown sugar
4 large eggs
250 g self raising flour
150 g cornflakes
100 ml milk
To decorate
100 g cornflakes
x2 batch of buttercream = (500g butter with 1kg of icing sugar, whip the butter for 5 minutes then fold through the icing sugar and mix in 2tsp of vanilla until incorporated)
Method
1) Start, by placing your cornflakes on a baking tray and bake them for around 15 minutes (they will toast up.) Then, pour your cornflake into your milk and set aside for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, sieve our your cornflakes and it will leave you with cereal milk
2) After your cornflake milk is made, Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius / 350 Fahrenheit/ gas mark 3 and grease and lining an 8 inch square cake tin we can start making our cake batter to do this I use an all in one method. Place your margarine, sugar, flour, eggs and 4 tbsp of cereal milk in a bowl and beat together until the mixture comes together (this can take a few moments).
3)Next, line and grease your cake tins. I use oil or butter and paint it around the cake tin with a pastry brush and then apply a layer of greaseproof paper to the sides and bottom using my lining a cake tin guide. Once lined, I place the batter in and smooth it out so it is level. This will fill around half your 6 inch tin.
4) Bake in the oven for around 30-35 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin for around 15 minutes. This cake can come straight out the tin after 15 minutes and be left to cool on a wire rack.
5) Next, make a batch of my simple buttercream recipe and fold 3 tbsp of salted caramel flavouring. I then level my cakes using a cake leveller and cake leveller guide. I then, pipe the buttercream onto the bottom layer and add some of those cornflakes, then place the top layer. Then add some of the cornflakes to the side of your cake pushing them on with your hands. Last but not least, I pile on that buttercream on top of the cake and take some of the toasted cornflakes and stab them standing up into the cake. Finally, I sprinkle with some colourful sprinkles to give the cornflakes a real pop. I enjoy this cake with some custard or ice cream.