Christmas tree cake
https://www.coop.co.uk/recipes/christmas-tree-cake
A simple ginger sponge cake, slathered in white chocolate icing and topped with rosemary Christmas ‘trees’
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Feeds
16
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Ready in
1 hour
30 minutes
Each serving contains
% of adult’s reference intake | Carbohydrates per serving : 59g
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Ingredients
- 325g Co-op unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
- 250g Co-op plain white flour
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp allspice
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 100ml Co-op semi-skimmed milk
- 125g golden syrup
- 125g black treacle
- 125g Co-op Fairtrade light brown soft sugar
- 2 Co-op British free range eggs, lightly beaten
- 350g Fairtrade icing sugar, plus extra for dusting
- 50g Co-op Irresistible Fairtrade Madagascan vanilla white chocolate, melted
- 75g Fairtrade caster sugar
- A few rosemary sprigs, cut in half
- Edible glitter (optional)
Method
For the cake:-
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/gas 4
- Grease and line a deep 20cm round cake tin
- Put the flour, ginger, cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg in a large bowl
- In a separate bowl, mix the bicarb and milk
- Put 125g of the butter in a pan with the syrup, treacle and brown sugar
- Heat gently, stirring now and then, until smooth
- Add to the flour and spices, mix until smooth, then stir in the milk mixture, along with the egg
- Pour into the lined tin and bake for 45-50 mins, until a skewer inserted into the cen-tre comes out clean
- Leave to cool in the tin for 10 mins before turning out to cool completely on a wire rack
For the icing:-
- Beat the rest of the butter, then whisk in the icing sugar a little at a time
- Add the white chocolate then mix until smooth
- Split the cake horizontally through the middle
- Spread a third of the icing on the bottom half, then top with the other half and cover with the remaining buttercream
- For the trees, heat 50g of the caster sugar in 3 tbsp water in a small pan until dis-solved
- Dip in the rosemary, remove, sprinkle with the rest of the caster sugar, then leave to dry
- Put the trees into the cake, sprinkle on a little glitter, if you like, and serve
