Baking, one of the many things I love doing. One of my Best Friend's was meeting me for the afternoon and we had already planned to bake. It's our thing, and we has been for years! We had decided to not just bake any cake, but use a silicon mould the shape of a rose. CUTE.
I had used a heart silicon mould in the summer for my boy's birthday cake so I kinds knew what I was doing, well I hoped I did. It makes it really easy because you don't have to grease the tin or anything and the mould just literally peels off the cake after its bake. Easy enough!
To make this cake here is what you will need:
Cake Mixture
200 grams self Raising Flour
200 grams Caster Sugar
200 grams Unsalted Butter
Vanilla essence
4 Eggs
Frosting
100 grams of Dark Chocolate
1 pack of Raspberries
100 grams Unsalted Butter
50 grams Icing Sugar
You can use any frosting of your choice of course.
Also an apron may be useful... I learnt the hard way and my jeans are covered in sugar icing dust. Oops!
Here is the rose mould, I bought this from Dunelm Mill for £8 but you can get them off Ebay for a little cheaper and all sorts of shapes and sizes.
Make sure you have scales to measure the correct amount of each item
Now is a good time to turn on the oven at 180c
Measure 200g of butter
Add 200g of Caster Sugar, put both in large mixing bowl and whizz with a whizzer (I call it that OK)
Make sure the mixture is light in colour and fluffy
Crack 1 egg at a time into the Mixing bowl
Add a table spoon of Vanilla Essence
Measure out 200g of self raising flour through a sieve
Add Flour to the rest of the mixture stirring in gradually
Pour the cake mix into the mould and pop in the oven for 50 mins
Now for the Icing.
In a fresh mixing bowl measure 100g unsalted butter
Take the 100g of dark chocolate and put in microwave for 1 minute or until melted
Pour in melted chocolate to the mixing bowl and stir with butter until smooth
Measure and sieve 50g of icing sugar
Add the icing sugar to the frosting mixture
Stir in sugar
Add the pack of raspberries to the frosting
Crush the raspberries into the frosting using a spoon so there are no large lumps
By now the cake should be good to come out of the oven, leave to cool for 20 mins
Frost the cake as you wish, we chose to keep it simple
Add a sprinkle of icing sugar through a sieve all over the cake to give it a lovely finished frosted look
Now tuck in!
Yum, dark chocolate and raspberry is such a delicious combo, I made in 2 hours ago and every member of my family and even neighbours have tried a piece! Lucky I love baking, especially over the Christmas period, you can really get creative.
Me and my friend have decided on cupcakes next time...
I'll keep you posted :)
justjessica
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