# 26: Chocolate-Vanilla Layered Cake with Icing

My Masterpiece! :)

I was at "Tesco" a few days back, and was browsing through their baking section. Amazing variety of things they have. Be it moulds or even colors. I was so tempted to pick up all the colors..so i can work on my icing skills. But aah! mom and sis-in-law were around and lately..rather since some 20 odd years we have stopped using any kind of artificial colors in our food stuff.  So.. it was next to impossible for me to pick up all those colors.. Well, but i am an equally hard nut to crack! got my way with Pink & green and am so proud of myself! :D

Going to the recipe...I must tell you the Ingredients for this cake is same as that of the Marble cake. Just that, i worked my way out with getting the layers right and a li'l working on butter icing.

Ingredients & Procedure: http://telangs-grubhub.blogspot.com/2011/04/25-marble-chocolate-cake.html

The technique i adopted to layer is the simplest on the face of earth!
Bottom most layer : Vanilla
Middle: Chocolate
Top : Vanilla
Just that put a good thick layer of each batter.Take a needle and design your cake through...

 





The Icing:

Ingredients:

1. Butter - 30 gms
2. Icing sugar - 100 gms
3. Vanilla essence - 4 drops
4. Drak chocolate - 4 pcs
5. Ground Cashews - 1 Tbsp
6. Chocolate Oat Crunch Cookies - 6 pcs
7. Pink color - 1 drop
8. Green Color - 1 drop
9. Silver Balls
10. Cherries

Accessories:

Butter Paper or Packet
               OR
Icing Cone with nozzles

Procedure:
Beat the Butter before adding the icing sugar. Later add the icing sugar to the butter and beat it well. Add the essence. The icing mix has to be such that when you lift the icing, it should be firm and not be even the slightest bit limp!
Do the icing accordingly...

Step 1:

Step 2: Roast the ground cashew a bit and mix it with the ground chocolate oat cookies. Once the layer of icing is put around the sides, dab the cashew-cookies granules to the sides as displayed in the pic. Start upwards! Always helps.. :)

Step 3: Melt the chocolate, add some butter and icing sugar and prepare the chocolate icing for the sides. To put the icing on the sides you can either you the icing moulds & nozzles or create your own icing bag using a packet or butter paper. Just slit the tip of the packet a bit, giving it a shape with which you can determine the design you would like to place at the sides of the cake...I slit the packet such that the shape generated was a "W"

Step 4: The flowers and the leaves. Take a spoon of icing mix to each color. Put 1 drop each and without vigorously mixing, put the icing in respective cones. I used Butter paper to prepare the cones and for the leaves, did a side slit at the tip, while for the flowers cut the tip in a "S"
Step 5: Decorate with Silver Balls & a Cherry! :)

A close up of the piece! I didn't quiet imagine that i would be able to get the zig-zag when i was pouring in the batter..But then..it just worked out!

Have Fun!