Make a festive chocolate cake with personal decorations.
Time flies and I have a million recipes and pictures I don't get posted in here yet. As previously written, I have opened a new webshop MAKERstudio.dk with the coolest American Cricut cutting machines, who can draw write, cut and a whole lot of creative stuff. I started just before the corona shutdown, and demand has just increased and increased.
In the next few recipes I will try to combine it a bit. I love experimenting with new things and materials, and for this cake I have so then tried to cut in a new material, Sugar paper. The sheets are something you can buy and use in a printer that prints with fruit color, they can be purchased in online baking / cake shops. I have made two different cakes. I do not have such a printer, but have instead cut patterns in the thin white sheets on my Cricut Maker cutter, you can see here how I have done it.
Buttercream tastes just so amazing
Always nice to put a cake up on a platter, it just gets more festive.
RECIPE – Chocolate cake with butter cream
INGREDIENTS
THE CAKE
3 eggs
2,5 DL sugar
6 dl mel
4 dl applesauce
1,5 TSP bicarbonate of soda
2 tsp vanilla sugar
1,5 Mr. cacapulver
4 dl dark cocolade buttons / chips (save the last 1/2 for garnish)
If you have no buttons so you can spend about 300 g chopped dark chokolde
1/2 tsp salt
0,5 DL rapeseed oil
BUTTER CREAM
200 g Butter or Organic Spreadable block (or it becomes too fluid)
50 g cacao
300 g icing sugar
2 tablespoons vanilla sugar or 2 teaspoon vanilla concentrate
3 spk liquid, I have used almond milk (thinking it can be omitted)
EVS 1 tablespoons Nescafe dissolved in minimal amount of boiling water
Although I am not a coffee drinker myself, I add Nescafe as I think it highlights the cocoa taste
PROCEDURE CAKE
- Turn on oven 200 ° C
- Grease the springform pan. I have used one here 21 cm round springform. It is not as large.
- Beat eggs and sugar in mixer
- Mix remaining ingredients including chocolate buttons and pipes
- Pour it into the springform pan
- Bake at 200ºC – depending on the shape size you have to try. It can be a little tricky to stick a knitting needle in as there are melted chocolate buttons in it. I had it outside and inside a couple of times and ended up together overall 45 min ( but finally do not bake too much so that they become dry, connectors possibly a knitting needle in, but it can go past when the chocolate is melted)
- Let the cake cool. I took a large knife and cut the top off when it was raised and I wanted it a little flatter.
- Put the cake in the fridge, the cake should preferably be cold when the buttercream comes on, otherwise the buttercream just melts.PROCEDURE BUTTER CREAM
- Mix all ingredients in a mixer.
- Using a pallet knife, grease the cake into buttercream
- Decorated with ornaments
Cut off the top so that the top becomes flatter
Here I have put my carved ornaments on
Beautiful gift wrapped in cellophane.
Geometric cake pattern
The carved triangles I have decorated with down the side.