Step by step instructions to make the trendy Number Cake.
Grease a 9" by 7" cake pan and dust it with flour. Keep it aside.
Take curd, sugar, milk (1/4 cup), pineapple essence, butter and oil in a bowl and whisk for 4 to 5 minutes till the mix becomes creamy. The more you beat at this stage the more spongy the cake will be.
Fold dry ingredients into the wet mix in 2 or 3 batches. Do not mix it vigorously. Be gentle and use cut and fold method.
Divide each cake into 2 parts. For dividing, make cuts all around the cake, just on the edges and do not go deep inside the cake. Now take a long thread (from your sewing box), place it between the cuts at the top.
Now keep a hand on the cake and with the other hand pull both the edges of the thread together. Let it remain like this only.
Now keep the cutout of number 5 on anyone cake and cut the cake along the lines.
Similarly, cut the shape of 0 from the other cake.
Remove excess cake and use it later either for making cake pops or serve it with vanilla ice cream or simply freeze it and use later on.
Mix 4 tablespoon powdered sugar in 4 tablespoon water.
Take a cake board, put numbers 5 and 0. Put this sugar syrup on all the parts, a tablespoon on each part. After 5 minutes, repeat the process. This makes the cake moist and soft.
Using a piping bag fitted with a large round tip, put dollops of whipped cream and randomly put pineapple slices and cherries. The dollops should be fairly big and tall.