It's been such a long time since I've posted here. Living alone means baking and then eating. That's a whole load of buttery goodness. So I decided to return with a bang! The final of Great British Bake off and treats to accompany!
I've also been asked to bake a friend's wedding cake. I need one that tastes good and keeps well.
Super moist because of the sour cream, it lasted well (un-iced)for 4 days.
Ingredients:
250g flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbinate soda
1/2 tsp salt
300g sugar
3 eggs
230g sour cream
125g butter
125g super dark chocolate
30ml strong coffee
glug Frangelico
100g butter
125g white/milk chocolate
tsp vanilla
Method:
Make the cakes! Line a loose bottom round tin (23cm)or a deep baking sheet
- heat oven to gas 3/140C
- you need two bowls. Place half the flour, raising agents and sugar in to each one. Stir.
- Make two chocolate marbles. Two pans. White chocolate and butter in one, dark in the other. Heat gently until melted, then stir. Leave to cool a little.
- Beat the eggs in to the sour cream.
- Tip the dark chocolate in to one bowl, the white in the other and mix well.
- divide the eggy mixture between the two bowls and mix till smooth.
- spoon in to the cake tin - some dark, some white, in a scattered pattern. Once all the batter is used up, use a teaspoon handle to make a quick swirl to marble.
- bake for 35 mins, check with a skewer. Once it comes out clean, it's done!
- leave to cool in the tin
- Once cool, slice the cake in to either three or two (depending on how deep the cake is)
- use a bisuit cutter to make mini cakes. Fill with a chocolate butter cream.
- heat 150ml double cream until nearly boiling. Pour over 250g 75% broken chocolate. Add a few tablespoons of frangelico and stir till glossy and smooth
-beat 400g soft butter till fluffy, add in 200g icing sugar. Add in the cooled gancheand beat.
- decorate the cakes with the buttercream and top with cherries!
