Edible Compost Cakes!

Now that you’ve made your own compost I know you’re thinking yum that looks delicious! I hope not really!

But we can make some fake compost cakes that are really delicious and really do look like compost!

Just like our real compost we layer our cake with wet ingredients (greens) and dry ingredients (browns) and we will have some fake mini beasts in it, just like our real compost!This recipe makes about four ordinary tumbler glasses worth of compost cakes and loose compost for the decoration. If you have too much left you can make it into cake pops!

Pre-set oven to 175 c, grease a cake tin or line with greaseproof paper. It takes about 15-20 minutes to prep, 40-45 mins to cook.

You will need:Browns (dry material,

main cake)Greens (wet material, chocolate ganache)

1 ½ cups/210g plain flour Double cream 200ml1 ½ cups/315g white

granulated sugar Dark chocolate 200gCheck any words written in red in the Eco glossary in module one to find out what it means!

1/2 cup/50g cocoa powder1 ½ teaspoons baking

powder½ teaspoon salt

1/3 cup/ 80ml vegetable oil1 large egg

½ tablespoon/ 10ml vanilla extract

¾ cup/ 190ml milk¾ cup/190 mil boiling water mixed with 2

teaspoons instant coffee powder

Jelly worms/snakes (try to get from pick and mix not

a plastic packet)

Or you can use any chocolate cake recipe you have!

Check any words written in red in the Eco glossary in module one to find out what it means!

You can make this a vegan recipe;

Just swap;

-1 large egg for 2 tablespoon water, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Mix these together first and leave to stop fizzing otherwise you’ll have fizzy cake!

- Milk for any other milk, oat, rice, soy, coconut, your choice!

- Double cream for coconut cream (any leftovers can be used for nice cream!)

- Get vegan friendly jelly worms or make them out of chocolate by melting white or dark chocolate, dripping onto greaseproof with a spoon and leaving to set.

You do not have to add coffee, but you cannot taste it when the cake is cooked it

Mix Flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder

and salt together,

Check any words written in red in the Eco glossary in module one to find out what it means!

Add oil, egg, vanilla and milk to flour mix and beat well. Pour in

boiling water with coffee and mix well.

Pour into prepared pan, cook for 40-45 mins until

knife comes out semi clean

Take out of oven and leave to cool

Check any words written in red in the Eco glossary in module one to find out what it means!

While it is cooking make the ganache. Heat cream either

in microwave or over a double boiler on the stove.

Mix in chocolate pieces until melted and smooth. Put in fridge for up to an hour.

Put greaseproof paper in a glass or tupperwear

tub (you choice of which shape, how big etc, you

can make small individual ones or bigger

ones to share!)

Put cake in a bowl and crumble with forks,

until it looks like soil.

Check any words written in red in the Eco glossary in module one to find out what it means!

Put plate on top, tip over and carefully remove cake from glass, take the baking paper

off.

Layer cake with ‘dry’ and ‘wet’ mixtures.

Just like real composting put a layer of dry material

at the bottom. Press it down. Layer ganache on top of the cake and keep going in this pattern until you reach the top. Press the dry cake down each

time.

Decorate and enjoy!!Put left over crumbs around edge of cake and put worms

over you ‘compost’

Check any words written in red in the Eco glossary in module one to find out what it means!

If you do have some left over, you can make cake pops!Mix the leftover ganache and cake together, roll into

balls. Freeze to harden and save for another day, take out of freezer 30 mins - 1 hr before eating, dip in melted

chocolate! To put on sticks melt a block or two of chocolate, dip a

cocktail stick into it and stick into the cake ball, the chocolate keeps it from slipping off. Freeze to harden and dip into melted chocolate when you are ready to

eat them.