Ingredients
Scale
Sponge:
- 155g All-purpose Flour
- ½ + ¼ tsp Baking Powder
- 175g Castor Sugar
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 100g Butter
- 1 no. Egg
- 35g Oil
- 145ml Milk
- ½ tsp Vanilla Bean Paste
Buttercream:
- 137g Egg yolk
- 450g Sugar
- 75g Water
- 1+1/2 tsp Vanilla Bean Paste
- 350g Unsalted butter
- ½ tsp Salt
Soaking Syrup:
- 30ml Water
- ¼ tsp Vanilla Extract
Decoration:
Gipsy Flowers
Instructions
Method For Sponge:
- Prepare two 6-inch tins by greasing them with oil and placing butter paper at the bottom. Preheat the oven to 180C (OTG mode: upper rod + lower rod + fan).
- Sieve flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar in a bowl.
- Add cold butter to the dry ingredients and rub it with your fingertips to get a crumbly texture.
- Now, in a different bowl, mix eggs, oil, milk, and vanilla bean paste.
- Add this liquid mixture to the crumbled mixture and form a smooth batter.
- Pour the cake batter into the prepared tins equally.
- Bake them at 180c (OTG mode: lower rod only) for 30-35 minutes or until the toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Method For Buttercream:
- In a saucepan, cook sugar and water until it reaches 115C
- Meanwhile, in a bowl, beat egg yolks until they are very pale and fluffy.
- Once the sugar water mixture reaches 115C, gradually add it to the fluffy egg yolk while still beating the egg yolk mixture simultaneously.
- Beat until the mixture has completely cooled down.
- Now add room temperature butter to it gradually.
- The mixture will go from very voluminous to flat, but it will get voluminous again when you keep eating it.
- Lastly add vanilla bean paste and beat again.
Method For Soaking Syrup:
- Add vanilla extract to water and mix.
Assembly:
- Demould the sponges and divide them into two parts with a cake leveller. ( we should have four layers of sponges)
- Now, on a cake base, pipe a tiny amount of buttercream, then place a layer of sponge on it.
- Soak the sponge with soaking syrup using a pastry brush, and pipe buttercream and smooth it out using a bent palette knife.
- Place another layer of sponge, then repeat the same process as before.
- Now pipe a thin layer of buttercream on top and side of the cake to crumb-coat it. Then smooth it out.
- Keep it in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Now, pipe thick layers of buttercream all over the top and the sides of the cake to give it a final coating.
- Remove the excess with a metal scrapper.
- Now pipe spirals of buttercream on top using a 1M nozzle.
- Lastly, decorate it by placing wild gipsy flowers randomly.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Assembly Time: 30 to 40 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 to 35 minutes