Name: Petit fours
Prep time: 120 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 150 min
Yield: 65 servings
Cuisine: Bake
Ingredients: 150.00 ml milk; 120.00 g butter; 200.00 g flour cake; 15.00 ml Baking powder; 0.00 0 eggs large; 200.00 g castor sugar; 5.00 ml vanilla essence; 200.00 ml jam smooth, apricot; 1.20 kg icing sugar; 150.00 ml milk; 0.00 0 Food colouring pink; 0.00 0 edible decorative balls silver and pink

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Ingredients (12)

150.00 ml	milk
120.00 g	butter
200.00 g	flour — cake
15.00 ml	Baking powder
0.00 0	eggs — large
200.00 g	castor sugar
5.00 ml	vanilla — essence
200.00 ml	jam — smooth, apricot
1.20 kg	icing sugar
150.00 ml	milk
0.00 0	Food colouring — pink
0.00 0	edible decorative balls — silver and pink

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Method:

Cake Grease and line two 18 x 28cm
rectangular cake tins. Heat the milk and
butter together in a saucepan and stir until the mixture just begins to boil. Remove from the heat, set aside and leave to cool until lukewarm. Sift the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt. Beat the eggs until light, then beat in the castor sugar gradually. Beat well, then add the vanilla essence. Fold the dry ingredients into the egg mixture. Fold in the milk mixture. Pour into prepared baking tins and bake in a preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Cut the cake into 3,5cm squares and place the
pieces on a wire cooling rack over a cutting board or a tray.

Heat the apricot jam and pour through a
fine sieve. Brush jam onto the top and sides of each piece of cake.

Icing Sift the icing sugar into a large
bowl and add the milk. Stir until smooth.
Divide the icing in half and colour one half with a few drops of pink food colouring to make a soft pastel shade. Place a square of cake onto a wooden skewer and hold it over the bowl of icing. Use a spoon to drizzle the pink icing around the sides of the cake and then over the top, allowing the excess to run off.

Carefully pull the cake off the skewer
and place on a wire rack. Cover half the
cakes with pink icing and the other half
with white icing.

Decorate the top of each cake with silver
balls, pink balls or Pearl Fetti. Leave on the wire rack until the icing has set completely. Remove from the wire rack and trim the bottoms with a sharp knife if necessary to form a neat edge.