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Ingredients
Basic chocolate cake
- 100 g unsalted butter, cut into pieces and softened
- 300 g plain flour
- 40 g Dutch cocoa powder
- 270 g white sugar
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 250 g full cream milk
- 1 tsp natural vanilla extract
- 2 eggs, room temperature
Buttercream icing
- 250 g icing sugar (see Tips)
- 120 g unsalted butter, cut into pieces and softened
- 2 tsp boiling water
- ½ tsp natural vanilla extract
Fondant
- 40 g water
- 3 tsp gelatine powder
- 100 g glucose syrup
- 15 g glycerine (see Tips)
- 620 g icing sugar, plus extra sifted for dusting and kneading (see Tips)
- natural food colouring of choice (see Tips)
- Nutrition
- per 1 portion
- Calories
- 2902.9 kJ / 691.2 kcal
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbohydrates
- 125.8 g
- Fat
- 18.4 g
- Saturated Fat
- 11.7 g
- Fibre
- 2.2 g
- Sodium
- 156.6 mg
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