This week, my sister came to stay with me- and since we both love a good bake, we decided to make a cake together (nawwwww)...
We decided on making a rich Chocolate Buttermilk sponge (found from tea with Bea) and pair it with a rich American vanilla buttercream and smashed Maryland cookies into it (mmm, mmmm)
Now we weren't sure what to expect with this buttermilk sponge, since neither of us have really made one, or knew the different between this mix and an average one.
Let me tell you now, that whenever in the future, when i crave to make a chocolate cake, i will FOREVER choose this AMAZING buttermilk sponge recipe. The cake mix looked light, airy and almost mousse-like, and the CRUMB! oh the crumb was INCREDIBLY light and feathery, if you touched the cake it was just the softest!! I can't stop raving about it!
It came out as a beautifully soft and airy sponge, but the taste was rich and fudgey, the sponge melts in your mouth like a brownie... an amazing experience i tell thee!
There was quite a lot of mix for my 8" cake tin, so we managed to make a full batch of cupcakes too! Bonus!! We crumbled up a few and decorated the big cake with a crumb coating- very pretty... shame about the bright red Celebrations box lid i had to put it on -_-'
For the buttercream, it was just a normal american vanilla buttercream (with quite a bit more milk added in as it was supppperrrrrrrrr sweet) and crushed up a packet of cookies and added them in.
My sister taught me how to put a crumb coating on the cake before properly covering it with the frosting as it was pretty thick and chunky to work with... Something to apply to future layer cake decorations..
Speaking of decorations, we got a bit crazy with another packet of cookies and chucked them all ontop because we wanted to... COOKIE DEVASTATION!!!
Like a beautiful natural cookie disaster.. Nom.
As i said, we had a batch of cupcakes to decorate too so here are some pictures of them
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