Winter Solstice Star Cake

It's the shortest day of the year so I made a starry cake to celebrate the winter solstice. Unfortunately I didn't get into Newgrange to see it light up but I love this intensly chocolatey cake that makes up for it.

Ingredients:
For the cake
225g (8oz) melted butter
225g (8oz) caster sugar
175g (6oz) flour
50g (2oz) cocoa powder
1 egg
2 tbs milk

For the decoration
200g (7oz) icing sugar
2 tbs water
Fondant
Blue food colouring
Black food colouring
Gold shimmer spray

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 180 (356 Gas mark 4.) Grease and line two 20cm (8") circle tin.
• Mix together the butter and sugar. Add flour, cocoa, egg and milk mix untill smooth.
• Bake for 20m or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
• As the cakes are cooling make the icing. Sift the sugar into a bowl, add the water and stir until smooth.
• Spread some of the icing over one cake, sandwich the other on top then smooth the rest of the icing over the cakes,
• Work the food colouring into the fondant until it reaches the colour of your desire. Roll out the fondant until there is enough to cover the entire cake. Smooth the fondant over the cakes.
• Roll out a small amount of white fondant, cut out a few stars using star shaped cookie cutter. Place the stars on greaseproof paper, spray the stars with shimmer spray. Stick the stars on with a bit of water.
• Cut a slice and eat that cake