1. What Everyone’sBeenWishingFor:
Annabeth’s Sponge Cake
Difficulty WARNING!
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5 Making Annabeth’s sponge cake is
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3 extremely dangerous and should ONLY
2 be attempted by an Adult. Neither
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0 Annabeth nor anyone else can be
responsible for any excruciating
injuries resulting from not following
this advice. Consider yourself warned!
What do you do when a little octopus keeps nagging you about there being nothing to eat? Or what
do you dip in your tea when that same octopus has eaten all the hobnobs? Or are you are planning a
picnic and that dratted octopus has eaten all the Battenberg? The answer of course is to make
Annabeth’s famous (for a given definition of ‘fame’) cake. Soft and spongy with a lovely chocolaty
smattering it does not keep for more than a few days which is a good excuse to eat it really quickly1.
What you need:
Ingredients Equipment
6 oz Soft Margarine Spoons to stir with
6 oz Self Raising Flour Scales
6 oz Caster Sugar A bowl
2 eggs A cake tin
Lots of chocolate chips! A cooling rack
Making
1. Weigh out correct quantities of the ingredients.
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But obviously not too quickly as this can lead to obesity or vomiting. Cake should be enjoyed responsibly as
part of a varied and balanced diet- you have now been warned about this too!
This worksheet is based upon The Whispering Sand by Ian Kenworthy. It has been made by Ian Kenworthy for use in education and for
promoting the Whispering Sand only. Thank You

2. 2.Place the margarine, flour and sugar into a bowl and stir with wooden spoon.
3. Add the eggs and stir until you have a lovely sloppy cake mix. Once it looks really gooey add
chocolate chips and stir until thoroughly mixed.
4. Pour mixture into a cake tin taking care to make sure the bowl is clean.
5. This is a good opportunity to lick the spoon. Just remember not to put the licked spoon back into
the cake mix! Because that is revolting, not to mention unhygienic.
This worksheet is based upon The Whispering Sand by Ian Kenworthy. It has been made by Ian Kenworthy for use in education and for
promoting the Whispering Sand only. Thank You

3. 7. Preheat oven to 1500C . It should be noticed that if you have the oven hotter the top of the cake
burns before the inside is cooked, this is the voice of a lot of experience.
8. Place cake tin in the oven and cook for at least 45 minutes. To discover if the cake is cooked push
a knife into the centre of the cake. If it comes out with gooey mix on the blade then it requires a
little longer. If thick black smoke starts billowing out of the oven you have cooked it too long.
9. Leave cake to cool on a wire rack.
10. Feed to a hungry little octopus!
This worksheet is based upon The Whispering Sand by Ian Kenworthy. It has been made by Ian Kenworthy for use in education and for
promoting the Whispering Sand only. Thank You