This is from my draft folder.. Think this is the cake I made for our 6th wedding anniversary.
I followed the recipe of Marry Berry for the cake and my own recipe for icing.
Ingredients
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For Cake
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Egg - 4
Self Raising Flour - 75gms
Cocoa - 25gms
Vanilla - 1/2 Teaspoon
Baking Powder - a pinch
For syrup and stuffing
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Tinned pitted black cherries - 2 tins
Sugar - 3 Tablespoon
Icing
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Whipping Cream - 500ml
Icing Sugar - 2 Tablespoon
Vanilla - 1/4 Teaspoon
Gelatin - 1 Teaspoon
Water - 2 Tablespoon
Method
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1.Preheat the oven to 180C.
2.Sift the self raising flour and baking powder.
3.Beat the eggs nicely with sugar till it becomes pale and fluffy with a electric beater.
4.Fold in the sifted flour and vanilla with a spatula.
5.Pour it into greased 23cm pan and bake for 15mins or till done.
6.Remove from Oven and cool it completely.
Syrup and stuffing
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1.Drain the syrup from tinned cherries.
2.Add sugar to 1/4 cup of syrup.
3.Reserve 12 cherries for decoration. Chop the remaining cherries finely.
Icing
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1.Keep the bowl and beater in fridge for 15mins.
2.Soak the gelatin in cold water and let it melt.
3.Keep some ice cubes in a wider container. Place the glass bowl from fridge in that container.
4.Pour whipping cream in glass bowl.
5.Add icing sugar and beat with electric beater .
6.Add gelating mixture and beat till soft peaks formed.
7.Beat in high speed and do not over beat.
Assembling
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1. Cut the cake into 2 pieces horizontally.
2. Prick it with fork.
3. Sprinkle the cherry syrup over it.
4. Wait for 10 minutes.
5. Apply a layer whipping cream over the first cake. spread chopped cherries.
6. Top with other layer of cake.
7. Sandwich them together with icing.
8. Wrap it in cling film and keep refrigerated for atleast 1 hour.
9. Apply another coating of icing all over the cake.
10. Pipe some stars on top of the cake and decorate with cherries.
For Chocolate syrup to write
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Melt 50g chocolate bar in microwave for 45 seconds.
Mix with a fork and heat again for 45 seconds. Repeat this process till chocolate melts.
Add 2 drops of oil and mix well.
Pour this into a zip lock bag , twist the bag tightly and cut a tiny bit at the end.
Practice writing in a paper before writing on to the cake.
I followed the recipe of Marry Berry for the cake and my own recipe for icing.
Ingredients
--------------
For Cake
------------
Egg - 4
Self Raising Flour - 75gms
Cocoa - 25gms
Vanilla - 1/2 Teaspoon
Baking Powder - a pinch
For syrup and stuffing
---------------------------
Tinned pitted black cherries - 2 tins
Sugar - 3 Tablespoon
Icing
------
Whipping Cream - 500ml
Icing Sugar - 2 Tablespoon
Vanilla - 1/4 Teaspoon
Gelatin - 1 Teaspoon
Water - 2 Tablespoon
Method
----------
1.Preheat the oven to 180C.
2.Sift the self raising flour and baking powder.
3.Beat the eggs nicely with sugar till it becomes pale and fluffy with a electric beater.
4.Fold in the sifted flour and vanilla with a spatula.
5.Pour it into greased 23cm pan and bake for 15mins or till done.
6.Remove from Oven and cool it completely.
Syrup and stuffing
-----------------------
1.Drain the syrup from tinned cherries.
2.Add sugar to 1/4 cup of syrup.
3.Reserve 12 cherries for decoration. Chop the remaining cherries finely.
Icing
------
1.Keep the bowl and beater in fridge for 15mins.
2.Soak the gelatin in cold water and let it melt.
3.Keep some ice cubes in a wider container. Place the glass bowl from fridge in that container.
4.Pour whipping cream in glass bowl.
5.Add icing sugar and beat with electric beater .
6.Add gelating mixture and beat till soft peaks formed.
7.Beat in high speed and do not over beat.
Assembling
---------------
1. Cut the cake into 2 pieces horizontally.
2. Prick it with fork.
3. Sprinkle the cherry syrup over it.
4. Wait for 10 minutes.
5. Apply a layer whipping cream over the first cake. spread chopped cherries.
6. Top with other layer of cake.
7. Sandwich them together with icing.
8. Wrap it in cling film and keep refrigerated for atleast 1 hour.
9. Apply another coating of icing all over the cake.
10. Pipe some stars on top of the cake and decorate with cherries.
For Chocolate syrup to write
-----------------------------------
Melt 50g chocolate bar in microwave for 45 seconds.
Mix with a fork and heat again for 45 seconds. Repeat this process till chocolate melts.
Add 2 drops of oil and mix well.
Pour this into a zip lock bag , twist the bag tightly and cut a tiny bit at the end.
Practice writing in a paper before writing on to the cake.
