How to make a layer cake

Name: How to make a layer cake
Total time: 110 min
Ingredients: 450 gm cake flour (see note); 400 gm caster sugar; 50 gm brown sugar; 28 gm baking powder; 255 gm butter, at room temperature, chopped; 360 gm milk, at room temperature; 200 gm eggwhites (7-8 eggs), at room temperature; 25 gm egg yolk, at room temperature; 15 gm (2 tsp) vanilla extract; 350 gm rose jam (or jam of your choice); Swiss meringue buttercream; 900 gm caster sugar; 450 gm eggwhite (around 18 eggs); 120 gm liquid glucose; 1 kg butter, at room temperature; ½ tsp vanilla extract, vanilla paste, or rose water, or to taste; To whiten: food colouring, or titanium dioxide (optional; see note)

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Pastry chef Catherine Adams takes us through how to make a high-rise vanilla-rose layer cake, step by step (with a Swiss meringue buttercream, too).

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