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Hamish's Buttermilk Cake

By Chelsea Sugar
Hamish's Buttermilk Cake
10 servings
  • 1 review

  • Difficulty Easy
  • Prep time 1 hrs
  • Cooking time 40 mins
  • Serves
    10
Ingredients

    Cake
    250gm flour
    1 1/2 tsp baking powder
    1/2 tsp baking soda
    1/4 tsp salt
    200ml buttermilk
    1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
    125gm soft unsalted butter
    200gm Chelsea Caster Sugar
    3 large eggs
    100gm milk chocolate buttons
    30gm cocoa
    150gm frozen raspberries
    100gm Chelsea Icing Sugar

    Buttercream
    300gm butter
    700gm Chelsea Icing Sugar, sieved
    1 tsp vanilla extract
    2 tbsp milk

Method

    Preheat oven to 180C.
    Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together in a bowl and set aside. Pour the buttermilk into a measuring jug and stir in the vanilla. Cream the butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric beater at medium speed (or by hand, of course) until light and fluffy. Reduce the speed if using a mixer and add the eggs one at a time, beating for 30 seconds between additions. Add alternating increments of the flour mixture and the vanilla-buttermilk, blending well after each addition; this should take 3-5 minutes.

    To make the other 2 flavours of wedding cakes:

    Chocolate: melt milk chocolate buttons over a double boiler, add this to 1/3 of the cake batter, along with cocoa.
    Raspberry: put frozen raspberries into a food processor. Whizz until smooth then pass through a sieve. Whisk in icing sugar then fold this mixture into a third of the basic vanilla batter.

    Divide mixture into the appropriate tins and bake for about 40 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean from the middle of the cake. Cool in the tin on a rack for 10 minutes before un-moulding to let cool completely.
    For the butter cream icing: Cream butter by itself for about 2 minutes or until nice and light; mix in the vanilla extract then slowly add the icing sugar and finally milk. Flavour the icing however you see fit with cocoa, essences, fruit powders etc.

    From the TV show Chelsea New Zealand's Hottest Home Baker.

    This recipe has not been tested by Chelsea Sugar.

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Reviews

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I have never had a cake fail as epically as this. It hardly rose and was very dense but it had giant air bubbles in it. I made it with my daughter and we both carefully checked the steps and ingredient amounts and they were as per the recipe. It’s got no flavour and the whole thing has gone in the bin!

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