Additional Ingredients

100 grams	Butter
400 grams	Icing Sugar (Silver Spoon Homegrown)
50 grams	Cocoa Powder

Further Additional Ingredients

100 grams	Chocolate Curls
	21 Cornets (Askeys) 12-14
1	White Designer Icing (Silver Spoon Create)
	Coloured Choco Beans (Silver Spoon Create)

How to make Hedgeosaurus

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1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/gas 4. Grease a 23cm round, deep cake tin and line with baking paper. Place one cupcake case in a cupcake tin.
2. Place the chocolate with 50g of the butter in a bowl and melt over a pan of hot water. Remove from the heat and stir in the remaining butter.
3. Mix the milk and vinegar. Place all the other cake ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Pour in the milk mixture and chocolate butter mixture. Beat until smooth.
4. Place I heaped tbsp of the cake mixture in one cupcake case. Spread the remaining mixture into the cake tin. Bake the cupcake for 20-25 mins until just firm to the touch and bake the large cake for 50 mins to 1 hour, until firm in the centre. Cool for 10 minutes, then turn out and cool completely.
5. To make the buttercream place the butter in a bowl with 1-2 tsp boiling water, add the icing sugar and cocoa and beat until smooth.
6. Cut the large cake in half across the diameter and sandwich the flat sides together with jam to make the body of the hedgeosaurus. Place the cake on the cake board with the cupcake at one end to make the head. Spread the butter cream all over the top and sides of the cake and the cupcake.
7. Coat the cake with chocolate curls.
8. Place 5 whole ice cream cones down the back of the cake. Cut the pointed end off 10 cornets and use them as horns on the head and as feet.
9. Cut the top of one cornet in half to make the eyebrows and push into the cake. Using the white decoration icing to pipe eyes and add choco beans for pupils.

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