Vanilla and Chocolate three tiered cake

Mouth watering treat


Ingredients

  • 12oz Sugar
  • 12oz Butter
  • 6 Eggs
  • 4tsp Vanilla extract
  • 10oz self-raising flour
  • 1oz cocoa powder
  • 600g icing sugar
  • 300g butter
  • Any colour of food colouring you like
  • sprinkles

Method

  1. Preheat your oven to 180ºC/ gas mark 4 and line three, 8 inch tins with baking parchment.
  2. Mix together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  3. Beat the eggs and vanilla extract in a separate bowl and add to the mixture.
  4. Add the flour and mix.
  5. Separate the mixture equally into two separate bowls adding the cocoa powder into one of the bowls and mix.
  6. Pour the chocolate mixture into one of the tins and the vanilla mixture into the other two tins.
  7. Bake for 20-30 minuets or until a knife comes out clean.
  8. Whilst the cakes are cooling you can make the buttercream icing. Click here to make your own
  9. Add a few drops of food colouring into the buttercream and mix until you get your desired colour.
  10. Using a palate knife spread the icing between the layers and around the whole cake until fully covered (You may have to do a crumb coat first then another layer of icing).
  11. Using a star nozzle pipe some patterns onto the cake and add sprinkles.
  12. Serve and enjoy!

Chocolate Truffles

Full Of Chocolaty Goodness.

Makes about 15-20 depending on how big you make them.


Ingredients

  • 200g milk chocolate drops
  • 50g butter
  • 50g icing sugar
  • 100g plain cake (I use madeira cake)
  • chocolate sprinkles or your choice of sprinkles
  • small paper cases

Method

  1. Pour water into a pan and heat it until the water bubbles.
  2. Put chocolate drops and butter in a heatproof bowl onto the pan and stir until melted.
  3. Carefully lift the bowl off the water.
  4. Sift in the icing sugar and then crumble up the plain cake and add the cake to the mix. Mix well until all covered.
  5. Leave the mixture to cool.
  6. Put the sprinkles onto a plate.
  7. When the mixture has cooled with a teaspoon put a spoonful of the mixture into your hands and roll into a ball.
  8. Put the ball into the sprinkles and roll around until it’s all covered.
  9. Put the truffles into the paper case. Put in the fridge for 30 minutes or until firm.
  10. Enjoy!