Nimble Nibbles: Garden Worm Cake

Hi Everyone!
I hope you all had a nice Halloween :) This week's blog post is for a garden worm cake that I made for a cousin's birthday. This cake wasn't to complicated to make and the kids loved it!
So let's get started...

For the cake you will need:

300g caster sugar
300g butter
6 eggs
232g of self raising flour
67g of cocoa powder
1.5 teaspoons baking powder
45ml milk
two 8" round cake tins

1. Preheat your oven to 190°C/ gas mark 5.

2. This is an all-in-one mixture so place all your ingredients into a bowl and mix together until incorporated.

3. Evenly divide the mixture between the two tins and put in the oven for about 40-45 minutes.


Before going into the oven


After about 45 minutes

When the cakes come out of the oven you can leave them to cool in the trays for about 15 minutes and then remove them from the trays to allow them to continue cooling on a wire rack.

It's now time to make the icing and you'll need:

150g butter
300g icing sugar
3tbs cocoa powder
3 teaspoons milk
palette knife

And to decorate the cake you'll need:

a packet of Oreos
two bags of candy worms


I used these dual-coloured ones

1. Place all the ingredients into a bowl and mix together.

2. Use a palette knife to spread some icing over the top of one of the cooled cake layers.

3. If you want to have some worms poking out from the cake, place a few on top of the bottom cake layer and leave a little bit sticking out before you sandwich together the cake.

4. Sandwich both layers together and use the remaining icing to cover the rest of the cake. I like to spoon the icing on and then spread it with my palette knife.

5. Stick some worms into the icing around the side of the cake.

Next you need to make the icing that will represent the grass:

100g butter
200g icing sugar
green food colouring ( I used ProGel in 'Lime Green' )
grass tip ( I used this one)

1. Mix all the ingredients together until they form a smooth icing.

2. Pop your icing nozzle into a piping bag and fill the bag with the icing.

3. Pipe the 'grass' on half of the top of the cake. I think it looks better to finish off the grass area with a non-straight line as it looks more natural.

4. Crumble up about half a packet of Oreos. This will form the soil/dirt on the top of the cake.

5. If the chocolate icing is still wet you can stick the Oreo pieces onto this, otherwise you may need to add some of the leftover icing to act as a glue for the crumbs.

6. Now you can add some more worms to the top of the cake, put them on the grass, mud or both!

7. If you're making this cake for a birthday you can now add some candles and place the worms around the candles.