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

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:

Making

1. Weigh out correct quantities of the ingredients.

1 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!

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Difficulty

What Everyone’s Been Wishing For:

Annabeth’s Sponge Cake

WARNING!

Making Annabeth’s sponge cake is

extremely dangerous and should ONLY

be attempted by an Adult. Neither

Annabeth nor anyone else can be

responsible for any excruciating

injuries resulting from not following

this advice. Consider yourself warned!

Ingredients 6 oz Soft Margarine 6 oz Self Raising Flour 6 oz Caster Sugar 2 eggs Lots of chocolate chips!

Equipment Spoons to stir with Scales A bowl A cake tin A cooling rack

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.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

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!