A Really Easy Minecraft Cake

Zeens and Roger

10 years ago

Minecraft Chocolate Cake

You know those amazing cakes you see on Pinterest? Yeah, this isn’t one of those. I am not a very good baker. I love cooking, I am good at making food that tastes nice, and I love eating, but I am not a baker. If you are also not much of a cake maker, then you can probably make this recipe and feel halfway pleased with yourself!

Ok, so it isn’t Pin-worthy but it’s alright. I’m not good at decorating cakes either, so I think simple is best. I’ve tried being fancy before, but it just doesn’t work. So, this cake is for you if you need a very easy Minecraft cake recipe that is also very easy to decorate.

Easy Chocolate Cake Recipe

This recipe has evolved from a different one that a friend passed to me a few years ago. If ever I want chocolate cake, this is the simple recipe I go to. Over the years, I’ve made tweaks and changes, so much so that I now think I’m allowed to call it an original!

It’s a dead easy cake to make as it’s an all-in-one method and you can cheat even further by using self-raising flour instead of farting about with baking powder and bicarb! The recipe below is plain flour plus the powders, but just swap them for self-raising if you prefer.

Easy Chocolate Minecraft Cake Recipe

Minecraft Cake Ingredients

275 grams plain flour
1.5 tsp baking powder
1.5 tsp bicarb
3 tbsp cocoa powder
210 grams caster sugar
3 tbsp golden syrup
210 ml sunflower oil
210 ml milk
3 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
Half tsp salt.

You will also need ingredients for the buttercream icing, below. Plus, chocolate sprinkles for decorating.

Sift all the dry ingredients into a big bowl, then add the wet ingredients. Whazz together with an electric whisk and divide into two 7″ square tins (lined with greaseproof paper).

Put them in the oven, Gas Mark 4/160c, for 35-40 minutes. I don’t have a fan oven, so I swap the tins over after 25 minutes. Sticking a skewer into the middle will tell you if it’s done. If it’s clean, it’s done; if it’s not, then it needs a few extra minutes. Take the cakes out of the oven and leave them to cool.

Prep For Decorating in Minecraft Colours

The cakes won’t be 100% flat, and you want them to be as flat as possible. That means slicing a bit of cake off the top of each. These can be taste test bits; you need to taste plenty of them to make sure it’s ok.

Butter Cream Icing Recipe

350 grams of softened salted butter. If your butter is too cold, microwave cubes of cold butter in a bowl to soften it in 4-5 second blasts, mixing around after each blast
700 grams icing sugar, sifted (Did you know that you can freeze leftover butter icing!)
1 tsp Vanilla extract
3tbl cocoa powder
Green food colouring.

Mix the above ingredients thoroughly together in a big bowl. Take a generous quarter of the mix and put it into another bowl. Sift and mix 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder into the big bowl. Squirt two tubes of green food colouring into the small bowl of icing and mix (Aldi do a good version of the Dr Oetker gel colouring, but it’s not local enough to me).

Now there are two bowls of butter icing, one green and one brown.

Smoosh the chocolate butter cream to the top of the bottom square and then sandwich the other on top, which I place upside down. This provides you with a top surface that’s more square.

Before I start doing this, I tuck bits of greaseproof paper under the cake to stop the board getting messy. (Next time, I want to see if decorating somewhere else, then transferring it, will work better because I ended up tearing half the icing off the bottom when I removed the paper…ho hum).

Once sandwiched together, put more of the chocolate buttercream around the outsides of the cake, filling in any gaps. A knife in some hot water will neaten up corners and make it more cubey, like a Minecraft block.

The green icing is spread on the very top of the cake. Use the flat of a knife to pat over the top to create grass. I added chocolate sprinkles to the sides for dirt. I emptied it into my hand and then gently threw/pressed it on.