Man On The Moon Cake With Lunar Icing Food

RHUBARB LUNAR CAKE

Steps:

• Batter: Cream together butter and sugar until smooth and creamy.
• Add egg and vanilla.
• Sift together dry ingredients and add to butter and sugar mixture 1/3 at a time, along with buttermilk.
• Toss rhubarb with 1 tbsp flour and fold into batter.
• Spoon batter into a greased 9 x 13 inch cake pan and smooth the surface.
• Topping: Blend together topping ingredients and sprinkle evenly over batter.
• Bake at 350F for 45 minutes or until cake has risen, browned and comes away from the edges, and skewer (or toothpick) inserted in the centre comes out clean.

MAN ON THE MOON CAKE WITH LUNAR ICING

Steps:

• Beat eggs and oil till foamy.
• Add flour, soda, salt, and cinnamon.
• Fold in rest of the ingredients.
• Pour into greased 9 x 13 x 2 pan.
• Bake about 40 minutes at 350 º F.
• blend all ingredients until creamy (add few drops of milk if necessary).
• Spread on warm cake.

MOON CYCLE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Line a 12-hole muffin tin with 12 dark brown or black muffin cases. Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Put all the ingredients in a large bowl and using a hand-held electric whisk, beat for 2-3 minutes, until fluffy.
• Divide the mixture between the muffin cases, then bake for 20 -25 minutes, until risen and springy to the touch - ask an adult to help you with this bit. When the cakes are cooked, take them out of the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely - ask an adult to help you with this bit too. You will need 8 of the cakes to make a full cycle of the moon. If you need to, you can trim the tops of the cakes so that they are flat.
• Mix 3 tbsp of the icing sugar with enough water to make a spreadable paste and set aside. Knead the blue and black fondant icing together until the colours are almost blended together, leaving a few streaks of blue running through.
• Dust a work surface with a little icing sugar and roll out the coloured icing so that it's large enough to cut out 12 x 7cm rounds. Spread a little smear of the icing sugar paste on top of each cake and stick an icing round on top.
• Roll out the white icing to about 0.5cm thick. Using a small sharp knife, cut out 2 thin crescent shapes to make the waxing and waning crescent. Using a 7cm cutter, cut out 4 rounds. Cut one round in half to make the first and third quarter of the moon. Leave one round as it is to make the full moon and cut a small crescent away from the remaining 2 rounds, to make the waxing and waning gibbous moon. Using a little of the icing paste, stick each shape on to a cake. Leave one cake with nothing on - this will be the new moon. Use a star-shaped cutter to decorate the 4 cupcakes not included in the cycle with the leftover white icing.
• Using a pastry brush, apply a tiny bit of water over the darker icing then sprinkle a little glitter over the top - the water helps it stick in place. Have fun arranging your cakes in a lunar cycle!

LUNAR LANDING CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Prepare cake batter as directed on package; pour into greased and floured 2-qt. ovenproof bowl. Bake 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in bowl 15 min. Loosen cake from side of bowl; invert onto wire rack. Remove bowl; cool cake completely. Cut cake horizontally in half. Place flat layer on plate.
• Crush 7 large vanilla creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookies to form coarse crumbs; mix with COOL WHIP. Spread 1 cup of the COOL WHIP mixture onto cake layer on plate; top with remaining cake layer. Frost with remaining COOL WHIP mixture.
• Decorate with remaining ingredients as shown in photo. Refrigerate leftovers.