Super-easy birthday cake
Children love colour, so what could be better than a birthday cake with two different coloured sponges made from one mixture and a colourful icing?
Chocolate rice crispy cakes
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Makes 9
Skip to ingredients
- 100g milk chocolatebroken up
- 50g dark chocolatebroken up
- 100g butter
- 4 tbsp golden syrup
- 100g puffed rice
To decorate
- 50g milk chocolatemelted
- sprinklesmini marshmallows, nuts, Smarties, dried fruit or white chocolate buttons
Nutrition: Per cake
- kcal278
- fat17g
- saturates10g
- carbs28g
- sugars19g
- fibre1g
- protein3g
- salt0.5g
Method
step 1
Put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl with the butter and golden syrup and gently melt in 10-second bursts in the microwave, or melt it over a pan of simmering water, making sure the bowl doesn’t touch the water. Stir until smooth, then take off the heat and stir in the puffed rice, coating them gently with the chocolate until they are all completely covered.
step 2
Divide the mixture between nine cupcake or 12 fairy cake paper cases – it’s easier if you slide these into a muffin tin as it will help them hold their shape. Leave to set. If you want them to set faster, put in the fridge for 1 hr.
step 3
Drizzle with a little melted chocolate and decorate with sweets, dried fruit or nuts while they are still wet enough to stick them on. Will keep in an airtight container for five days.
