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Description
Cooking Time
Preparation Time : 20
Cook Time : 40
Total Time : 60
Ingredients
Serves 8
2 cups self-raising flour
3/4 th cup caster sugar
150gm softened butter
4 eggs (beaten)
10pc washed and dried blackcurrants
For icing :- 4-5 tablespoons of neutral jelly
3-4 tablespoons of blackcurrant crush
Pink and royal blue colour 1/4teaspoon each (just to mix with jelly so as to make colour of black currant)
Sugar water syrup 1 tablespoon each to be put in divided layers of cake
Green food colour for making leaves 1/4 teaspoon
Whipped cream 1 small bowl
Directions
Heat oven to 150C for 10 min (preheat)
Prepare baking tin, line with greaseproof paper if necessary.
Cream the butter and sugar well.
Add the beaten eggs and flour in small quantities beating well.
Stir in the black currants gently
Pour into cake tin.
Bake for 40 mins and test with a knife to check if it is cooked
When knife comes out cleanly remove cake from oven and tip out on to a cake rack to cool
Now cut the cake into 2 layers
Put sugar water syrup and then whipped cream on top
Add blackcurrant crush
Mix this way
Cover with another layer of cake, repeat the process if you are making it in 3 layers
Now put whipped cream on top
Shape it nicely
Using patri make the sides neat
This was it will come out
Now take a bowl add jelly
Put pink and blue colour inside
Mix it gently till a nice blackcurrant colour appears
Now comb the cake nicely from the sides
Put blackcurrant jelly on top
This way it should be free flow
Now take out carefully on a cardboard
Make roses
Place on cake
Repeat again and place the second rose
Make leaves using piping bag, put green colour with white whipped cream
Make a border below
Cake is ready
Ramit Ghai
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