SteemFoods Contest -19-| prepare a special cake for Mother's Day! ❣|by@meniya

Hello lovely @steemfoods community

I'm super delighted to be part of another great contest. Special greetings to @alikoc07 and the organizers of this wonderful contest. This week’s special contest is dedicated to our lovely mother's, so I'll be making a dark chocolate cake for my mum(i call her 'my superwoman 😍) it's one of her favourite brand of cakes and it's her birthday month too.
My mum's name is Inye.T.Briggs, a beautiful mother to 5 children , would have love to take a photo with her now but she's currently on a visit to see her first grandson.

INGREDIENTS FOR BAKING DARK CHOCOLATE CAKE

▪︎500g flour
▪︎200g butter
▪︎200g sugar
▪︎5 medium size eggs
▪︎1 tsp Foster clarks( chocolate extract)
▪︎1 1/2teaspoon Baking soda
▪︎70g Dry mixed fruit
▪︎1 cup of milk
▪︎2 tspoon Baking powder
▪︎2 cup cocoa powder
▪︎1 cup of boiling water
▪︎1 tspoon coffee (optional, it makes the
cake darker)
▪︎1/2tsp salt

PROCEDURE FOR BAKING DARK CHOCOLATE CAKE

First, Sieve the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, coffee and salt in a large bowl. Whisk through to mix all dry ingredients together properly using a wooden spatula, stir through flour mixture until combined well.

Seiving the dry ingredients

Mixing the dry ingredients

Melt the butter with low heat,

then add all the liquid ingredients; melted butter, eggs, chocolate extract , and vanilla extract, in another bowl and then mix properly using a whisk untill they have completely blend together.

Mixing the liquid ingredients together

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Now you add the liquid ingredients to the flour mixture in folds and mix together clockwise on medium speed until well combined. Ensure you maintain the clockwise direction of mixing

Reduce speed and add vegetable oil into the batter to make it loose a bit, add 1 cup of boiling water to the cake batter until it is well combined.

Then add dry fruits

Properly mixed cake batter

Next, you grease the cake pan with butter using a brush and pour in the mixed cake batter into the pan and add more dry fruits on top.

Put the cake pan into an already pre-heated oven ( i used a pot and gas with low fire to bake) and bake for 1hour 30mins.

When the cake is removed from the oven, you allow to cool and transfer cake onto a cake board and put in the freezer.

While cooling the cake start making your fondant icing for the cake.

INGREDIENTS FOR FONDANT ICING

▪︎1 tspoon gelatine
▪︎500g Icing sugar
▪︎1tsp Vanilla extract
▪︎1 tsp chocolate extract
▪︎Lemon green colour
▪︎Golden yellow food colour
▪︎1 tsp CMC
▪︎1 tsp glucose
▪︎4 tsp water

PROCEDURE

First, Seive the icing sugar on a clean board, add CMC and mix properly together with hands to remove any clumps

Put 4 tsp of water into a saucepan and add the gelatine, stir to dissolve the gelatine,
Leave for 3mins and place on low heat to disslove the mixture completely.

Add the glycerine and glucose into the dissolved gelatin, and add Vanilla extract, then stir properly to blend mixtures properly .

Create a well in the mixture of icing sugar and CMC and Pour the mixture into the well of icing sugar gradually begin to mix, and continously dust the board with some of the extra icing sugar and knead untill the fondant is ready

Add a drop of food colours(green and gold)on the fondant, and mix together properly to get desired colour of your decoration.

Fondant is ready

Use a rolling pin to stretch out the fondant to desired shape, the dress the cake First with butter and place the prepared fondant on the cake properly, then decorate cake to your taste.

Waaalaa....... our cake is ready🥰

Happy mother's day to my superwoman and every mother in the world. Wishing all mother's good health and long life😘