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Vanilla and Honeycomb Cake

Course desserts
Keyword Cakes
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes

Ingredients

Cake

  • 200 g butter
  • 200 g caster sugar
  • 200 g self-raising flour
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • 1 Tsp Vanilla extract

Buttercream

  • 200 g butter
  • 400 g icing sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp milk

Instructions

  • Pre-heat oven on gas mark 4. Grease five 6inch cake tins with butter and line with baking parchment.
  • Add all the ingredients to a bowl and mix until fully incorporated the pour the mixture equally into the tins.
  • Bake for 15 minutes until golden. Once out the oven, leave to cool in the tins for a few minutes.
  • Beat the butter until pale and fluffy then add the icing sugar gradually until fully incorporated. Then add the vanilla extract and milk then mix until incorporated.
  • Using a palette knife, spread the buttercream on to your first layer of the cake then sprinkle honeycomb pieces on top. Repeat this until your cake is fully assembled.
  • Once you have your 'tower', apply the buttercream to the cake and using a spreader, spread the buttercream all the way around the cake until the cake is covered.
  • Add the last little bit of buttercream into a piping bag and pipe roses to the top of the cake then add some more honeycomb to the top.