I made this birthday cake for 2 people celebrating together.
Ageing is a gift, enriching grace and characteristics, and it’s about living fully and being grateful for each year. Celebrate ageing with gratitude. My family loves moist buttery butter cake – plain this year, as requested by my mom and sister. My nephew had asked for chocolate and raspberry candy to be added on top.
Google:” Butter cake is made with key ingredients like butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and leavening agents such as baking powder or baking soda, making it a quintessential cake in American baking.” The key is to ensure the butter is at room temperature, neither melting nor cold. Leave it out of the fridge for a few hours on hot days or overnight on cold days. Use fresh castor sugar and sift the flour, baking powder, and bicarb soda twice. Always use fresh large eggs. For the liquid, use full-fat milk or sour cream. Sour cream will result in a slightly softer crumb. Using both milk and sour cream will make the texture moist with a slight tangy flavour.
As the baker, I craved for berries, white chocolate, and cream cheese. Today, I decided to use self raising flour and make white chocolate cream cheese frosting with everyone requested moist buttery cake, chocolate cream and raspberry candy for my nephew. Everyone is happy and got what they wanted and enjoyed it. I am glad my cake is moist buttery, beautiful and delicious. Let’s bake a cake with everyone favourite!!!
Ingredients
300 g unsalted butter, softened
300 g self-raising flour, sifted
300 g sour cream
220 g caster sugar
4 large eggs
135 ml full cream milk
1 1/2 Tsp baking powder, sifted
1 Tsp vanilla extract
1/2 Tsp salt
White chocolate cream cheese frosting
100 g white chocolate chips melting
100 g cold butter, cubes
200 g cream cheese
1 Tsp vanilla extract
Garnish
13 blueberries, plus more to serve
3 chocolate cream biscuits
1 1 /2 strawberries
1 Strawberry flower
1 candle
raspberry candy toppers
Method
Preheat oven to 170 degrees C. Place a deep pan with boiling water in it into the oven. This helps keep cake moist soft and fluffy. Grease and line bottom of a round baking pan 8″.
Beat butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl until pale and creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Then add flour, baking powder, sour cream and milk, in alternating batches, stirring until combined.
Spoon batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake for 40-60 minutes. Bake for 40 minutes first. Check with skewer: out still wet. Then cover with metal big bowl continue to bake further for 10 minutes until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Leave in oven with door close and switch off oven for 1 hour. Then cool further in the pan for 30 minutes before turning over to a cake base lined with paper towel. Let it cool a further 30 minutes.
Meantime makes white chocolate cream cheese frosting. Melt white chocolate chips on a bowl and place on top of a pot with enough water. Stir the chocolate from the centre out until fully melted. Sit cool to room temperature before using them.
In a mixing bowl, beat cold butter until softened; pale and fluffy. Add cold melted chocolate chips, cream cheese and vanilla extract into the beaten butter. Mix everything until combined. Used immediately, by now the cake had cool completely on the cake base with lined paper towel.
Spoon it onto the middle top of cake, spread out with metal spatula, make some rustic design at the edge and all around top. Then before serving garnish cake with 3 chocolate cream: spread some cream at the bottom of chocolate then set apart from each other, on the right and close to the edge. Place 2 blueberries on the left and in between the last two chocolate. Then 3 more blueberries in front of the first chocolate facing you.
On the left side close the edge, line up in a row with 8 remaining blueberries, then place strawberry flower followed by cut halved strawberries at the bottom of strawberry flower. In the center top sprinkles raspberry candy toppers and place a candle at the bottom of raspberry candy toppers. Then light the candle. Sing Happy Birthday song. Blow the candle and serve the cake with some blueberries and the strawberry flower with raspberry candy toppers. Enjoy with coffee, tea and dessert wine!!!!
Note: You may need more or less time as oven temperature vary. You don’t have to place a pan with boiling water in the oven. As my oven is old and temperature vary. Plus, I don’t want cake to burnt too fast.
You can just use butter frosting, or dusting with icing sugar. You may add more sprinkles or more fruits.
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