Festive Lettered Cakes
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Difficulty:
moderate
Difficulty
Preparation:
1 hr 40 min.
Preparation
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Ingredients
for
12
- For the cakes
- ⅔ cup butter
- ⅔ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 ½ tsps Baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 1.333 cups plain Yogurt
- 1.333 cups fresh Cranberry
- For the buttercream
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsps liquid Glucose
- ¼ cup condensed milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1.333 cups unsalted butter
- ⅜ cup cream (48% fat)
- To decorate
- ½ cup white Sugar paste
- powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsps red Sugar paste
- 1 tube red piping gel
- 1 tube black piping gel
- Sugar star (red, white, yellow)
Preparation steps
1.
For the cakes: heat the oven to 180°C (160° fan) 350°F gas 4. Grease 12 muffin cups or line a 12 hole muffin tin with paper cases.
2.
Beat the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until soft and light. Gradually beat in the egg until smooth.
3.
Sift in the flour, salt, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and stir into the egg mixture with the yoghurt until just combined. Gently stir in the cranberries.
4.
Spoon into the cups and bake for 20-25 minutes until golden and risen. Cool in the tins for a few minutes, then place on a wire rack to cool completely.
5.
For the buttercream: whisk together 300 g |3 cups icing sugar, glucose, condensed milk, vanilla and butter with an electric whisk until smooth and light.
6.
Stir the remaining icing sugar into the cream until dissolved, then gradually beat into the butter mixture until light and fluffy. Chill for about 20 minutes until firm.
7.
Spoon into a piping bag and pipe on the cakes.
8.
To decorate: roll out the white sugarpaste on a surface dusted with icing sugar. Cut out 3 reindeer faces with a cutter or card template. Place on top of 3 cakes.
9.
Roll pieces of the red sugarpaste into 3 balls for the noses and attach to the faces with a dab of water.
10.
Pipe 2 dots of black piping gel on each face for the eyes.
11.
Pipe 'Merry Xmas' on the remaining cakes with red piping gel, as in the photo. Decorate with sugar stars.
