Saturday 17 December 2016

Snowball Bundt Cake

It's festive cake time! I love it too much... what I dislike is having to go to work, do shopping, be a grown up, and anything else which stops me from just staying at home and baking.

This week I was off to the hairdressers to see my long suffering colourist, Aimee. She's the little beaut responsible for my ever changing, technicoloured barnet. As a little thank you, I decided to make her a bundt of her very own. With all the booze, shimmer and glitter, this was the perfect cake for a glamourous girl.

I'm a big fan of the decoration reflecting what's in the cake, so my Snowball flavoured cake had to be a snowy scene, complete with its own Snowman. I know it's in your head now too. Sorry.

I wanted the cake to be light and zesty, but with a real warming kick from the booze, so the sponge itself is laced with Advocaat and lemon, whilst the frosting is made with lemonade and vodka. An actual Snowball drink, in a cake. Well paint me red and call me Mrs Claus, this is one festive little bundt!

Cake:
  • 225g butter
  • 450g golden caster sugar
  • 4 medium eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 350g Homepride plain flour
  • 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 250ml lemon yoghurt
  • 100ml Advocaat
  • Zest of 1 lemon

Topping:
  • 300g icing sugar
  • a good splash of vodka
  • Enough lemonade to make a runny icing
  • Gold cake glitter (optional)
  • Anything remotely snow-like which is edible! 

Method:
  1. Preheat the oven to gas 3/160 c
  2. Prepare a regular sized bundt tin - 2.4l, 10 cup, 10 inch with melted butter and dust with flour.
  3. Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
  4. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. 
  5. Stir in the vanilla extract.
  6. In a separate bowl, measure out the flour and bicarbonate of soda.
  7. Pour the yoghurt into a jug, and add the Advocaat and lemon zest.
  8. Sift in a third of the flour mix followed by half the yoghurt. Repeat this until everything is combined. 
  9. Give everything a quick mix on a low speed for about 10 seconds.
  10. Pour the mix into your prepared tin. 
  11. Bake in the centre of the oven for about 1 hour 15 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. 
  12. Leave the cake to cool for ten minutes before removing from the tin.
  13. When completely cool, mix the icing sugar with a good splash of vodka and enough lemonade to make a runny icing.
  14. Tip it over your cake like you just necked the rest of the vodka - gravity id your friend here!
  15. Decorate with all the snow related edible stuff that the shops have to offer. More is more here. Tis the season.  

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2 comments:

  1. so perfectly pretty... good luck with the hair!

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  2. My favourite cake of yours! I love snowballs, there was a few years when I couldn't drink them, but that's passed now 😉. Beautiful Bundt in a tin I haven't got - yet! Well done Mrs Claus, hope the paint comes off!

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