In which I bake another, more ambitious, MRI scanner cake...

The ISBE annual BBQ was on Friday so I had to once again attempt to bake an MRI scanner cake. I decided to go for a more realistic one than previously.

The basic cake is made using Delia's All-in-one Sponge recipe and then things get a little crazy as I make 4 of them.[1]

Ingredients

• 32 oz (880 g) self raising flour
• 8 tsp baking powder
• 32 oz (880 g) margarine
• 32 oz (880 g) caster sugar
• 16 large eggs
• 8 tbsp cocoa powder
• strawberry jam
• 2 kg ready made fondant icing
• black writing icing
• white designer icing tube
• 8 chocolate rice krispie squares
• icing sugar

Recipe

I split the mixture into two batches and made 2 cakes each time.

• Add the rest of the ingredients.
• Whisk together with an electric whisk.
• Put into greased 9" round baking tins.
• Bake for 45 mins to an hour until a skewer comes out clean.
• Leave cakes to cool.
• Use jam to stick the bottom 2 cakes together.

• Cut a hole out of the two, top cakes using a pastry cutter.

• Use jam to stick these two cakes to the top.

• Use bamboo sticks to hold the cake together.

• Use designer icing to fill any gaps where the cake has fallen apart.

• Roll out two circles of icing slightly larger than the cake tin used to bake the cakes.
• Use jam to stick icing to bottom and top of cake.
• Roll out more icing and use jam to stick it to the outside of the cake.

• Make a small square of icing to use as a scanner bed.

• Use designer icing to stick together two rice krispie squares for each foot.

• Use bamboo sticks to stick feet to the bottom of the scanner.

• Put the scanner onto it's feet and decorate with your favoured scanner manufacturer's logos.
• Enjoy!

Annoyingly this did start to give way though it did make it to the BBQ in one piece. Next year I'll make a better, less collapse-y cake :)

Tom Out!

[1] Delia Smith (2005). Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course. 2nd ed. London: BBC Books. 640 pages.