Yesterday was Boom Bake’s 1 year anniversary, and this is the perfect birthday cake. It has chocolate and vanilla, and you can decorate it for little kids, for big kids, for adults, for dinner parties, for any occasion! I think this is a piece of cake! It’s your choice how you decorate, that is why I love it, it comes from your heart!
Ingredients:
For the vanilla cake:
- 175g unsalted butter, softened
- 175g caster sugar
- 3 medium eggs
- 150g self raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
To make the chocolate cake, use the same ingredients as above and add 3 tbsp cocoa powder mixed with 1 tbsp hot water.
Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas mark 5.
Cream together the butter and sugar until smooth, add the eggs and mix until well blended. Add in the flour and baking powder until a lump free batter. Pour into 2 lined 20cm circle cake tins. Bake for 15-20 minutes until firm.
For the chocolate layers, repeat the step above but with 3 tbsp cocoa powder and 1 tbsp of water added to the mixture (it says this at the start but I don’t want any confusion!)
Decorating is up to you; but here is a simple buttercream to get you started!
This buttercream has a unique flavour, the cream cheese gives it and extra tang of richness. If you don’t have cream cheese (or can’t get some) no fear, just add 50g more butter, it will still taste amaze!
Ingredients:
- 600g icing sugar
- 225g softened butter
- 75g cream cheese
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
With the electric beaters, beat the icing sugar, butter and cream cheese until smooth and creamy, beat in the vanilla. Using electric beaters gets rid of lumps, makes a good, well blended taste, and it makes it EXTRA CREAMY!
Smooth the buttercream between each layer, you can do chocolate, vanilla, chocolate, vanilla or any other pattern. If you like, you can cover the cake with fondant or die the buttercream with food colouring. You can add sprinkles, sugar decorations, chocolate decorations or any other décor.
ENJOY!
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