Recipe: Tasty Chocolate Poppy cakes

Chocolate Poppy cakes.

You can have Chocolate Poppy cakes using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Poppy cakes

1. You need 200 grams of best Margarine or butter.
2. You need 200 grams of Sugar.
3. Prepare 200 grams of Self Raising Flour.
4. It's 3 of Eggs.
5. Prepare 50 grams of Cocoa Powder.
6. You need 2 of tablespoons(about) Milk.
7. It's of Icing Spread.
8. You need of Cheated and brought ready made chocolate frosting.
9. You need of Topping.
10. It's of Fondant Icing, brought in a red colour.
11. You need of Fondant Icing, brought in a dark brown colour.
12. You need of Icing Sugar for rolling.

Chocolate Poppy cakes step by step

1. Beat Margarine (or Butter), sugar until soft and smooth.(using a mixer if you have one!!).
2. Mix Self Raising Flour with Cocoa Powder, with a hand whisk, to remove lumps, in a bowl.
3. Whisk lightly the eggs to a smooth mix and set aside.
4. Using a mixer, add the flour/ Cocoa mix, plus the beaten eggs,to the butter / sugar mix, bit by bit until all are combined, then whisk for a further few minutes until the mix is very light and just falls off the whisk...
5. Put about a rounded tablespoon of mix into each cake cake, and cook the two trays in a medium to hot oven for ten minutes, swop the trays, turning at same time, cook for a further ten minutes, or until a skewer, inserted, comes out clean..Cool on a rack for at least 30 minutes....
6. Meanwhile roll out the red icing on an icing sugar covered board, and shape into 24 poppy shapes. Place onto foil. Add small rounds of brown/ black for centres. (Stick them on with a little water, brushed onto the surface.)Spread a small amount of chocolate frosting on top of each cake and then add the Poppy shapes, pressing down to stick them in place..
7. Box up cakes for gifting, or enjoy!!.