Black widow cake

Serves: 8

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Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 45

• 100g soft eating liquorice pieces
• 175ml water
• 250ml vegetable oil
• 165g self-raising flour
• 100g sugar
• 25g cocoa powder
• 50g walnut pieces, ground
• 2 tbsp gram flour mixed with 4 tbsp water
• 2 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp baking powder
• Few drops vanilla extract

For the icing

• 60g icing sugar
• ½ tsp food colouring (optional)
• 1 tbsp water

To decorate:

• Black icing pen
• 1 piece of soft eating liquorice

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180C/ Gas Mark 4. Chop the liquorice into small pieces and put in a small pan with 175ml water. Boil for about 5 minutes until the liquorice is starting to go soft and mushy. Remove from the heat and pour in the vegetable oil, stirring well.
2. Put the remaining cake ingredients into a large mixing bowl and stir in the liquorice mixture.
3. Put in a small (18cm) lined cake tin and bake in the oven for 35 minutes, or until a skewer comes out of the middle of the cake clean.
4. Leave in the cake tin to cool for about 10 minutes, then remove onto a wire rack to cool completely.
5. Mix together the icing sugar, food colouring (if using) and water, then spread over the cooled cake with a palette knife, gently and evenly. Using the black icing pen draw a web pattern on top of the icing. Then make a spider out of the spare piece of liquorice!
   
   Recipe courtesy of The Vegetarian Society, www.vegsoc.org

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