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Fruit and vegetables
strawberries
, raspberries or quartered fresh figs
Tins, packets and jars
140g/5oz
plain flour
Cooking ingredients
vegetable oil
or oil spray
200g/7oz
caster sugar
60g/2½oz
cocoa powder
pinch
salt
2 tsp
baking powder
500g/1lb 2oz
icing sugar
Biscuits, snacks and sweets
100g/3½oz good
dark chocolate
(at least 70 per cent cocoa solids), melted and slightly cooled
Dairy, eggs and chilled
200g/7oz
butter
, softened
4 free-range
eggs
250g/9oz
butter
, softened
Other
400g/14oz plain, milk, or white chocolate cigarillos (about 75–80 in total)
fresh flowers, for a Christening cake
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