Happy Easter Monday! I hope you've all eaten loads of chocolate this weekend, what better excuse than Easter! On Saturday, I made a chocolate and vanilla cookie crumble cake and I've had so many comments about it on my social media etc with people asking how I made it so I decided to put it in a blog post in case you wanted to make it!
What You'll Need:
- For The Cake:
- 170g unsalted butter
- 170g caster sugar
- 115g self raising powder
- 3 large eggs
- 55g cocoa powder
- pinch of salt
- For Decorating:
- Betty Crocker Vanilla Buttercream Style Icing
- Chocolate chip cookies
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (gas mark 5) and line two sandwich tins with baking paper
- In a bowl, mix the butter and sugar together until light and creamy
- Sieve the cocoa powder and flour into a separate bowl, add the salt, and mix together
- Separate the floury mix into thirds and add a third and an egg at a time to the butter & sugar, and mix until thick and creamy.
- Pour equal amounts of mix into the two tins and spread evenly
- Put them into the oven for 25 minutes until spongey to touch - you can stick a knife in the centre and if it comes out clean, the cake is done
- Once cooked, take out of the tins and leave on a wire rack to cool completely
Decoration:
- Once the cakes are cooled, use a palette knife to spread the buttercream on one side of the two cakes and sandwich them together.
- You can either do the buttercream on a cake board, or on a bread board and transfer it over afterwards
- Using the palette knife, spread a thin layer of buttercream all over the top and sides of the cake - this will be your crumb coat. (A crumb coat makes sure that your main layer of buttercream has not crumbs in it - it makes it look nicer)
- Put in the freezer for 15 minutes in order to firm up the crumb coat.
- After taking it out of the freezer, spread a final layer of buttercream over the cake and use the palette knife to smooth out the edges and the top
- Cut as many cookies in half as you need and use them to line the sides of the cake
- Using quarters of cookies, place them between the half cookies
- Crush up a cookie and sprinkle over the top
- Voila!
Share your favourite cake recipes with me and let me know if you try out this recipe at all! Have a lovely week x
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