Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon
Today we are going to make this pretty flower cake using just buttercream for those decorations.
For the filling between the layers we are using mascapone, cream cheese, icing sugar
and vanilla.
I'll put all the recipe quantities on the howtocookthat.net website in grams and ounces
and cups for you and there's a link to that below.
Mix that together until it's combined.
And then for the syrup you'll need sugar, water and coffee, add the sugar to the water
and heat it until it is dissolved.
Then add in the coffee and stir that through well.
For the cake itself I am using my sponge cake recipe and I'll link you to that video in
the blog post too.
Brush on as much or as little of that coffee syrup as you like and then add a generous
amount of the cream cheese filling.
This syrup together with the filling give it a bit of a tiramisu sort of flavour to
the cake.
Stack on the next layer, more syrup, loads more filling and then the top layer.
Mix up a batch of my buttercream and again I'll link you to that video in the blog post.
Cover the whole cake in a thin layer of buttercream, you could use ganache or whatever frosting
you like for this part, we're just covering the whole cake..
Use a spatula to smooth out the top ... and the sides of the cake.
Then run the curved end of the spatula around the base of the cake in a straight line and
then repeat that all the way up the sides.
For our flowers we want to mix different colours and you can do whatever you like.
I am using a green, pinks purpley colours , yellow and a little bit of uncoloured frosting.
Take a flower spike - this just makes it easy to twirl whatever you are piping, that is
why we have one of these.
Put a little bit of frosting on it and then a piece of non-stick baking paper on top.
Then pipe a cylinder of yellow then just add some extra bits on top there.
Just squeeze and pull up, squeeze and pull up so that it makes the centre of your flower.
Next take some pink icing and a 125 piping tip and pipe around the centre all the way
around... then add petals going up and down, then just up around and down.
Keep going around like that until you are happy with the size of your flower.
Next start in the middle and pipe a tall blog.
Then pipe around it with pink to make the centre of the flower.
Then pipe petals just like we did before and keep going all the way around the flower.
And you want to repeat that with different coloured pinks so that you get some variation
on your cake and then you want to put them in the freezer to go firm.
Using your palest pink make some little flowers just piping up across and in, up across and
in.
And keep going so that you have four little petals.
To make a rose bud pipe a centre in whatever colour you have spare, and then wrap it around
in the green.
Then pipe the flower colour in the centre using a 349 tip twisting as you go.
Then take a knife and close up the bud so you can just see a bit of the pink.
For some extra greenery pipe a blob of green then pipe spikes on the top and all over it,
around the sides.
Place it in the freezer to go firm.
And then once it is firm pipe a little dot of white icing on the end of each spike.
Add some icing in the centre of the cake just to raise up the middle flowers so it is not
completely flat so it looks a bit more like a bunch.
And add one of your bigger flowers and some rose buds around it.
Then pipe on some green on the side and add your next flower into place.
If you don't pipe that green on first you might find it a little bit hard to get in
between the two flowers without bumping them . Continue to add more and more until you
have covered the whole top of the cake.
If you live somewhere hot like I do you'll need to work fairly fast before they soften.
Or you can just put them back int he freezer while you are working.
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If you like this style of cake follow ivenoven on instagram she has been piping in this style
for years now and she is really brilliant.
She doesn't know I'm giving her a shout out, so let her know I sent you.
Make it a great week and I'll see you on Friday.
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