Giant Fondant Fancy
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a large Fondant Fancy cake
Ingredients
  • 200g butter, softened
  • 200g caste sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • strawberry jam
  • 50g butter
  • 100g icing sugar
  • dash of milk
  • 250g Henshaw Pale Pink Icing (or 350g if you have that, in which cane you will not need any white)
  • 100g Renshaw white Icing
  • 50g milk chocolate, melted
Instructions
  1. Pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC (fan)
  2. Grease and line a square brownie tin
  3. Cream the butter and sugar together until soft and pale - about 5 minutes
  4. Add the vanilla extract, the eggs and a spoonful of flour and beat well for a few more minutes, to make the mixture light and airy
  5. Fold in the flour and mix well
  6. Pour into your prepared tin and bake for 30-35 minutes until risen and cooked right through
  7. Leave to cool
  8. *make your buttercream*
  9. Beat the butter until softened
  10. Add icing sugar and beat until soft and creamy - you may need a tiny dash of milk to help make the buttercream more creamy
  11. Line a small bowl (the bowl needs to hod enough buttercream to sit in the middle of the cake - so place your bowl on the cake to check its the right size) with some cling film or greaseproof paper
  12. Put all but 1 spoonful of the buttercream into your [prepared bowl, cover, and place in the fridge to chill for at least 20 minutes
  13. *Assembling*
  14. Mix the 2 fondant icings together to make a pastel pink colour
  15. Dust a work top with some icing sugar and roll out your icing to make a large square or circle or a mixture if thats how you roll icing (like me!)
  16. Slice the cake in half horizontally to make two squares
  17. Cover one half with jam and sandwich the sponge back together
  18. Using the leftover buttercream, spread it around the middle sides of the cake
  19. Remove your chilled buttercream from the bowl and place on top of the cake in the middle
  20. Carefully pick up the pink icing with your rolling pin, and drape it over the cake . Seal it around the cake, and trim off any excess
  21. Melt your chocolate and pour into a piping bag
  22. Place your cake on to a plate, and drizzle the chocolate over the icing in the style of an exceedingly good Fondant Fancy cake !!!
  23. Yum!
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2016/10/giant-fondant-fancy-gbbobloggers2016-gbbo-week-9-patisserie.html