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The BFG’s Grobswitchy Cake

The BFG's Grobswitchy Cake

My 6 year old has been working his way through the Roald Dahl books and the latest is The BFG. As soon as we started reading it he asked what crafts we could make, so we looked through our copy of Roald Dahl’s Completely Revolting Recipes and found a recipe for The BFG’s Grobswitchy Cake.

“It is a little bit like mixing a cake’, the BFG said. ‘If you is putting the right amounts of all the different things into it, you is making the cake come out any way you want, sugary, splongy, curranty, Christmassy or grobswitchy. It is the same with dreams.'”

We measured out the ingredients and made the cake mixture.

The BFG's Grobswitchy Cake

Then we put the cake together. It’s a clever recipe where you put half the mixture in then sprinkle a layer of sugar, cinnamon, chopped pecans and grobswitches (otherwise known as amber sugar crystals) over the top. We poured in the other half of the cake mixture and sprinkled the remaining sugar, cinnamon, pecans and grobswitches on top.

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This cake smelled delicious when baking and looked pretty good when it came out of the oven. The pecans and grobswitches gave it a lovely crunch and it went perfectly with custard.

Roald Dahl's BFG Grobswitchy cake recipe

 

You may also be interested in our other Roald Dahl posts:

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George’s Marvellous Medicine mud kitchen activity
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-inspired chocolate play dough
Roald Dah stamps
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16 Comments

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    DannyUK.com
    April 11, 2016 at 12:41 am

    This looks delicious! I love the fact that there are Roald Dahl inspired recipes that are simple enough for the kids to join in making.

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    Elodie
    April 11, 2016 at 10:55 am

    This looks absolutely incredible! And the whole thing is just so cute – you definitely win at parenting!

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    Rhian Westbury
    April 11, 2016 at 11:07 am

    This sounds absolutely lovely and I love the idea of putting nuts in a cake to mix up the texture x

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    Harriet from Toby & Roo
    April 11, 2016 at 2:01 pm

    We have a BFG cookbook but I’ve never tried this! Amazing!

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    Ickle Pickle
    April 11, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    Oh how fab is this? I had no idea you could make something from a Roald Dahl book – I must try this when Pickle is a bit older. Kaz x

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    Jamie
    April 11, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    That sounds like a great book for kids (mental note for goddaughter), I think I would have loved it when I was younger. Just to add I might have tasted quite a bit of that cake before cooking it ha ha xx

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    Oliver
    April 11, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    That looks so good! The little ones had fun too it seems, which is even better!

    Oliver • http://suedeandsymphony.com

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    Rachel
    April 12, 2016 at 2:34 pm

    Ooh I need some of this, it looks just divine x

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    Georgina Ingham | Culinary Travels
    April 12, 2016 at 4:07 pm

    Oh that looks & sounds lovely. So nice to see your kids baking too 🙂

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