These splodge cakes look and taste fantastic.

They have just as much colour on the inside as they do on the outside!
Even though the cakes are multi-coloured, you just start off with one mixture.

Cream together 100g of butter and 100g of sugar.
You'll also need 100g of sifted self raising flour and 2 eggs.

Pop both of those in with the creamed sugar and butter, and get mixing!
When mixed, divide the cake mixture into three equal portions.
Here's how to make these little cakes in camouflage colours.
For the brown, use a tablespoon of cocoa powder.

Just add it into one of the portions of cake mixture.
...and for the green, use concentrate paste or food colouring.

Again, add to another portion of cake mixture, then mix.
Once the colours are mixed, you need to splodge!

There are two ways you can do this - you can either get a spoonful and splodge it in...
...or you can put your mixture into a bag, snip off one of the corners and squirt it in!
because you're splodging the colours in, they don't get mixed up.

And when you bake them, the colours will stay separate so that you get a really colourful cake.
When you've done them all, cook the cakes at 190 degrees celsius or gas mark 5 for 15 minutes.
Once the cakes have cooked and cooled, you can ice them. The design looks really complicated, but it's very simple!

Start off by getting your icing in camouflage colours - brown, green and yellow.
Roll out one of the colours with a rolling pin, but remember to put some icing sugar down first so that it doesn't get stuck to the table!
Then, tear off blobs of the coloured icings.

Place them on the rolled out icing, then if you roll again, you'll see the pattern start to emerge!
Next, get a cutter that's the same size as the top of your cake, and cut out a circle of icing.
Then just carefully place the icing on top of each cake, like a lid.
Splodge cakes - fun to make and great to taste!



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