Babette’s celebration cake – Food & Home Magazine

Babette’s celebration cake – Food & Home Magazine

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Winner of the Golden Cloud You Take the Cake competition, Annetjie Emge's cake, the Babette’s celebration cake, is filled with nutty, chocolatey goodness.

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Ingredients

  • <h3>Batter</h3>
  • 3 extra-large eggs
  • 300g (1½ cups) light brown sugar
  • 5ml (1 tsp) vanilla extract
  • 50g (½ cup) cocoa powder
  • 125ml (½ cup) vegetable oil
  • 125ml (½ cup) strong, black coffee
  • 210g (1¾ cups) Golden Cloud Cake Wheat Flour
  • 1ml salt
  • 15ml (1 tbsp) baking powder
  • <h3>Hazelnut brittle</h3>
  • 100g hazelnuts
  • 125g castor sugar
  • <h3>Hazelnut praline ganache</h3>
  • 180g good quality milk chocolate,
  • chopped
  • 125ml (½ cup) thick cream
  • 15ml (1 tbsp) Frangelico liqueur
  • cooled hazelnut brittle
  • <h3>Whipped ganache</h3>
  • 125ml (½ cup) non-dairy cream
  • (vegetable dessert topping/artificial
  • cream (“This can be replaced with cream, but I find it very rich,” says Annetjie)
  • <h3>COFFEE SYRUP</h3>
  • 15ml (1 tbsp) Frangelico
  • 60ml (¼ cup) strong, hot black coffee
  • <h3>GARNISH</h3>
  • whipped cream, chocolate shavings
  • and reserved hazelnut brittle,
  • roughly broken

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