Merry Christmas everyone!!!

I named these creations of mine Christmas Tikar, I know you're probably wondering what 'tikar' means. Well in the olden days, people did not fur or fabric for carpet in the Javanese homes, they would wave some bamboo leaves and voila! a tikar is created, forming a criss-cross pattern.

The truth is I didn't know where I got this idea from, I just thought it would be cute to create a christmas cake with of course, christmas colors - green and red. So I came up with this eventually. It's pretty troublesome to create the 'patchwork' pattern. If you're not in the mood for art and crafts.. then I suggest just layered them and serve. It really doesn't matter how you serve them as long as the cake taste great, right?

Ingredients:

(Makes one single layer/color)

7 eggs

200g castor sugar

1g salt

140g low protein flour

1,5g baking soda

40g liquid milk

1/2 tbs vanilla essence

30g margarine (melted)

(Chocolate layer)

20g cocoa powder (sift together with flour)

(Green and red)

10 drops of green and red food coloring (mix in together with milk)

How to bake:

1. Preheat oven to 180 C

2. Prepare 3 (24x24x4) tins, layered with greaseproof paper.

3. Whisk eggs, sugar and salt until fluffy and light

4. Fold in flour, (cocoa powder for chocolate layer) and baking soda. Mix evenly and gently.

5. Add the milk (mixed with food colorings for the colored layers) and vanilla essence, mix evenly.

6. Add the melted margarine, mix evenly.

7. Pour mixture to the tin and bake for 30 minutes.