Cakes to Celebrate Love and Life by Callie Maritz & Mari-Louis Guy

Author:Callie Maritz & Mari-Louis Guy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2009-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

High Days and Holy Days

Strawberry Cake

If Barbie ate cake ... This fun cake is great for those super-fun girlie events, like sweet sixteens and hen parties.

30 g butter

1¼ cups (250 g) sugar

4 eggs, at room temperature

2 cups (280 g) self-raising flour

⅓ cup (80 g) strawberry jelly powder

1 cup (250 ml) milk

strawberries to decorate

Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Grease 2 × 18-cm round cake pans.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl regularly. Add the flour, jelly powder and milk. Beat until well combined.

Spoon the mixture into the prepared pans, and then bake for 35–40 minutes, or until the centre of the cake springs back when lightly pressed. Turn out onto a rack to cool.

Sandwich the cake layers together with some of the buttercream and strawberries, and then ice the cake all around with the remaining buttercream. Decorate with fresh strawberries.

STRAWBERRY BUTTERCREAM ICING

125 g butter, softened

1½ cups (210 g) icing sugar, sifted

2 Tbsp (30 ml) milk

1 tsp (5 ml) strawberry essence

pink food colouring (a little goes a long way)

In the bowl of an electric mixer, with the paddle attachment, beat the butter until pale and creamy. Add the icing sugar and half of the milk. Beat until combined. Add the strawberry essence and food colouring as required. If the mixture is too firm, add the rest of the milk and beat until you achieve the desired consistency.

Yule Log

Chocolate cake, chocolate mousse, chocolate butter cream. We love the French for being different from the rest of the world. Instead of fruit cake, they use this trio of decadent chocolate to get into a festive mood.

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