• Prep Time: 15 - 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

• Serves: 10 - 16

Ingredients

For the Moist Chocolate Cake

• 4 SPAR Eggs, separated
• 275 ml SPAR Sunflower Oil
• 5 ml Vanilla essence
• 560 ml SPAR Wheat Cake Flour
• 250 ml SPAR Sugar
• 65 ml Cocoa
• 20 ml Baking Powder
• Pinch of salt
• 275 ml boiling water

To Decorate the Rocket Blast Off Cake

• 500g SPAR Butter
• 850 g SPAR Icing Sugar
• Food colouring of your choice
• 1 SPAR Freshline Jam Swiss roll
• Various sweets to form planets and to decorate the cake

Method

1. Pre heat your oven at 180 °C.
2. Beat the egg whites until stiff and set aside.
3. Without cleaning the beaters, beat the egg yolks, oil and vanilla essence together.
4. Sift all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt) together.
5. Add the egg yolk mixture and boiling water and mix well. Fold in the beaten egg whites lightly with a metal spoon. 
6. Grease and line 2 x 20 cm layer cake tins with baking paper.  Turn the batter into the prepared tins, dividing it between them. Tap the pan lightly to break large air bubbles.
7. Bake at for 20 to 30 minutes. 
8. Invert the cakes on a cooling tray. When the cake is almost cold carefully loosen around the side so that it will come out easily. 

To Assemble the Rocket Blast Off Cake

1. Cream butter and icing sugar using an electric mixer until soft, fluffy and light. 
2. Ice the 2 layer cakes together with white icing.  Ice the top and sides of the cake also using white icing.
3. Ice the Swiss roll with white icing.
4. Colour most of the remaining icing blue reserving a little for red icing. Cover the first layer of white icing with blue icing to create the atmosphere.  Don’t worry if some white icing shows through as it will form a misty effect.
5. Place the Swiss roll upright in the centre of the cake to form the rocket, using kebabs sticks to hold it in place.
6. Once in position you can smooth the icing and touch up.  We placed round sweets to hide the joins between the Rocket and the chocolate cake as well as around the base of the chocolate cake. 
7. Place a small amount of red icing into a sandwich bag.  Push it to the corner to form a small piping bag.  Snip the end and use it to pipe windows onto the rocket.
8. Use 2 triangles of cardboard for the wings. Position on the side of the rocket.
9. Use a side plate to draw a circle on a piece of card. Cut out the circle and make a slit from the side to the centre.  Fold to create a cone shape and fasten with tape.
10. Lastly use gum balls and jaw breakers as the planets and sun. We also used gold balls as stars.