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Afternoon tea

Upside-down marzipan ClemenGold cake

1 hour

Berry recipes

Creamy barley vanilla porridge with roast strawberries and evaporated milk

25 - 30 minutes

Afternoon tea

Vanilla cake with pistachio icing

35 minutes

Nut recipes

Tiger nut milk pudding

40 minutes

Brown butter cake with caramel icing

Serves 10

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 45 minutes

Cooking Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

For the hot-milk sponge:

8 free-range eggs
500 g caster sugar
1 cup warm brown butter
560 g flour
½ t salt
2 T baking powder
2 cups milk, warmed
2 t vanilla paste

For the caramel ganache buttercream:

1 cup cream
200 g Woolworths caramel chocolate drops
200 g butter, softened
380 g icing sugar, sifted

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and line 3 cake tins of varying sizes. Beat the eggs and sugar until light and creamy. Slowly fold in the warm brown butter.

2. Fold in the dry ingredients and gently add the milk and vanilla. Divide the mixture between the cake tins and bake for 20 minutes (10 cm cake tins) or 30 minutes (15 cm+ cake tins). Cool in the tins before removing.

3. To make the caramel ganache buttercream, bring the cream to a simmer in a saucepan and pour over the chocolate. Allow to stand for 1 minute, then mix until smooth and glossy. Place a sheet of clingwrap directly on the surface and chill until completely cooled. Whisk the butter until light and fluffy, slowly adding the icing sugar. Whisk in the chocolate until well combined and fluffy. Ice the cakes and top with white chocolate curls and spun sugar.

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Photographs: Myburgh Du Plessis
Production: Abigail Donnelly
Food assistants: Bianca Strydom and Nadia Meyer

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Vanilla cake with pistachio icing

Tiger nut milk pudding

Refined-sugar free pistachio-tahini date ice cream

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Brown butter cake with caramel icing

Brown butter cake with caramel icing

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