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Ingredients
Vanilla cake
- 200 g unsalted butter, cut into pieces and softened, plus extra for greasing
- 680 g plain flour
- 540 g white sugar
- 2 tbsp baking powder
- 2 pinch salt
- 500 g full cream milk
- 2 tsp natural vanilla extract
- 4 eggs
Buttercream icing
- 250 g icing sugar (see Tips)
- 120 g unsalted butter, cut into pieces and softened
- 2 tsp boiling water
- ½ tsp natural vanilla extract
Fondant
- 40 g water
- 3 tsp gelatine powder
- 100 g glucose syrup
- 15 g glycerine (see Tips)
- 620 g icing sugar, plus extra sifted for dusting and kneading (see Tips)
- natural food colouring of choice (see Tips)
- Nutrition
- per 1 portion
- Calories
- 408041.8 kJ / 971.5 kcal
- Protein
- 10.7 g
- Carbohydrates
- 172.1 g
- Fat
- 27.4 g
- Saturated Fat
- 16.8 g
- Fibre
- 2.2 g
- Sodium
- 295.5 mg
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