GOLDEN GAYTIME CAKE

SERVES 12. PREP 10 MINS. COOK 35 MINS

INGREDIENTS

• 1 packet vanilla cake mix

• 1 bowl chocolate buttercream icing

• 1 packet Arnott’s Malt ‘O’ Milk biscuits

• 250 g cream cheese

• 100 g butter

• 1 ½ cups icing sugar

• 1 can Nestle Top ‘n’ Fill Caramel

METHOD

1 Prepare vanilla cake according to the packet directions. Bake in a 23cm x 18cm greased and lined pan.

2 To make the caramel filling combine cream cheese, butter and caramel in a mixer at medium speed. Add the sifted icing sugar in two lots and mix until smooth and combined.

3 Put the biscuits in a large ziplock bag and use a rolling pin to lightly crush into 5mm pieces.

4 Allow cooked cake to cool, then trim two of the corners so that they are rounded like the top of an ice cream.

5 Use a large bread knife to slice the cake into two layers.

6 In the middle of the cake, spread with the caramel filling. Replace the top layer, then spread the chocolate buttercream over the top and sides of the cake until covered. Place the cake in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. 7 Sprinkle biscuit pieces over the top and press into the sides.

8 Slide a large popsicle stick into the bottom of the cake to complete the Golden Gaytime ice cream illusion.

ARIES

Uncertainties and risks are inevitable parts of life. You’re not one to tempt fate, nor would you run and hide instead of seizing the chance at an experience of the sort of wholesome pleasures that make you feel alive.

TAURUS

Memory is subjective and unreliable. Even people raised in the same house can have vastly different memories of what happened within those walls. Today will bring up the need to account for variances of recollection.

GEMINI

Support can come in many forms. Today, the kind that’s called for is hands-off. You believe in someone and show it by stepping back to allow them to handle things in their own way.

CANCER

Many of the challenges you deal with are the same ones we all deal with. Then there’s the one that’s so unique to you that you sometimes feel you’re the only one with it. That’s not necessarily true.

LEO

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VIRGO

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LIBRA

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SCORPIO

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SAGITTARIUS

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CAPRICORN

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AQUARIUS

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PISCES

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