Birthday Butterscotch Bake

Finally a more recent post that I can put up, well not really recent, but more recent than the others.
So the 24th of August was Andrew's 19th birthday and after seeing earlier in the year, some butterscotch flavouring, I was desperate to create a butterscotch flavoured cake for him. However, when it came down to buying the flavouring at the time, they were all out :( So that led me to a bit improvisation on my part.

This is the story of how a butterscotch cake ended being a ginger cake with butterscotch and white chocolate pieces!

So the basic cake ingredients:

• 225g of Butter
• 225g of Caster Sugar
• 4 Medium Eggs
• 2tsp of Vanilla Essence
• 225g of Self Raising Flour

Okay, so that was what I was aiming to follow, so here is what I did. 

I mixed the sugar and butter together till it was really creamy!

I then beat in 4 eggs and slowly mixed in the flour. 

I kept mixing until the mixture was silky soft with no lumps.

Here is where things did not go to plan, I thought I had some Vanilla Essence, so picked up a jar from the cupboard and poured a little into the mixture. I then smelt...Ginger... 

After putting the Ginger in I wasn't too worried at first, because whenever I have used the Ginger essence in the past it has never been a very strong flavour...Boy was I wrong this time! But I have been told the Ginger side to the cake was not a bad addition.

Next I added handfuls of ASDA butterscotch pieces and ASDA white chocolate drops and mixed. 

I greased two pans with butter and split the mixture between the two.

This was placed in the oven for about 20 minutes on 180 degrees until beautifully browned and cooked inside. 

I then left the cake to cool down before decorating. Whilst waiting I made up some simple buttercream using Icing Sugar and butter, often the boxes the icing sugar come in have a basic recipe on the back. When the cake was cooled I evenly spread the buttercream across the cake and sprinkled butterscotch pieces and white chocolate drops across the top.

I then Pushed some candles into the cake and a 'Happy Birthday' decoration. Andrew ended up lighting his own candles, because I am useless at that job!!

Andrew huffed and he puffed, but luckily the three little pig's houses where nowhere to be found.  Finally the last part of the bake, was to cut out a huge slab of the cake each and EAT!!!