Jumbo Angel Slice

We started off with a trip to the supermarket for supplies. All the ingredients in our sponge recipe had to be multiplied by three to give the right proportions.

Ingredients on floorboards: flour, sugar, butter, eggs, icing and a box of Mr Kipling Angel Slices

Next we stopped off at a stationers to get some sturdy card to make giant baking boxes.

The sponge mix was whisked up using nine eggs, a whole packet of sugar and a mountain of butter.

Pale sponge batter being whipped with an electric hand mixer in a large mixing bowl

Then the mixture was divided into two, and we carefully added a few drops of red food colouring. That clearly wasn’t enough so we chucked a whole load in and the perfect shade of pink was acheived!

Red food colouring beaten into a second bowl of batter to make the pink sponge

Now for the baking boxes. After a lot of measuring, cutting and sticking we had fantastic jumbo size cake ‘tins’. Should we have thought it through and just used shoe boxes? Nah……..

Two baking tins folded from white card, with scissors and offcut strips on the floorboards

Into the oven they go! Ready after 30 minutes.

Both card tins in the oven, one holding plain batter and one pink

Once cool, we needed to trim the sides to create perfectly square edges. Then we piled it all together with a whole bowlful of cream in the middle, and added a lovely white blanket of icing on top.

Baked pink sponge slab turned out onto a lined tray beside the kitchen scales