For all those who want
to surprise your valentine with a lovely baked cake, here’s quick version of
mine to do it.
I have used my basic chocolate cake recipe as the base. Poured chocolate fondant and buttercream
icing for decoration.
For poured chocolate fondant:-
Ingredients:
Powdered sugar – 2 cups
Water – 50ml
Cocoa powder – 3 tbsp
Corn syrup – ½ tbsp
Veg oil – 1 tbsp
Almond extract – ¼ tsp
Notes:
Instead of corn syrup
you can use either glucose syrup or sugar syrup. Take 2 tbsp of sugar and melt
it using as little water as possible to make it a thick syrup.
Instead of almond
extract you can use vanilla essence.
Method:
In a bowl mix powdered
sugar and water until it forms a thick paste.
Add corn syrup – mix –
add cocoa powder – mix – add oil – mix – lastly add almond – mix
At this stage the
fondant will be thick. Microwave this for 1min and 35sec. the fondant will be
glossy, dark and of pourable consistency.
Now pour this mixture
into a piping bag and pour it onto your cake. Make sure you do this procedure
while the fondant is still warm coz the mixture will set once it cools down!
For buttercream icing:-
Ingredients:
Veg shortening/dalda – ½
cup
Butter – ½ cup
Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
Icing sugar – 4 cups
Milk – 2-3 tbsp
Method:
Cream shortening and
butter until creamy.
Add vanilla and beat
again.
Now add 1 cup sugar at
a time until they are incorporated well. It might seem hard to beat as you keep
adding sugar hence make sure you add the next cup only after they have combined
well!
Once all the sugar has
been used up, slowly add milk 1tbsp at a time and beat well. Add more or less
milk according to your desired consistency. If you want your icing to be runny
you might want to add upto 5tbsp. but if you want it to be thick then 3tbsp
would do fine.
Have fun decorating!!
