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Vanilla + Raspberry Sponge with Chocolate Icing

Kezia Hall
A truly showstopping real food grain free cake with 3 tiers, chocolate icing and a delicious gluten free sponge.
Cook Time 40 minutes
Servings 16

Ingredients
  

  • THE SPONGE
  • 700 g ground almonds
  • 6 eggs
  • 2 tsp Vanilla Essence
  • 200 g Honey
  • 150 g Organic Butter
  • Pinch Salt
  • 1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
  • ICING
  • 200 ml Melted Coconut Oil
  • 125 g Organic Butter
  • 5 tbsp Honey raw
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
  • 5 tbsp Cocoa powder
  • RASPBERRY JAM
  • 600 g Raspberries
  • 3 tbsp Honey
  • DECORATIONS optional
  • Fresh Raspberries
  • 1 Raw Beetroot
  • Edible glitter

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 170c.
  • Grease and Line 3 different tins or one big one if you are happy to chop the cake up once cooked to create the different sized tiers.
  • Mix all the sponge dry ingredients together. Then blend all the wet ingredients (including butter) until smooth.
  • Mix the two together well.
  • Pour into the tins and put in oven until cooked - approx 40minutes.
  • Meanwhile put the raspberries and honey in a pan and start to simmer. Simmer for around 15-20 minutes or until setting point (the jam will become firm and form a skin when placed on a cold plate), once at setting point remove from heat.
  • Allw the cake and jam to cool.
  • To make the icing melt all the ingredients together in a glass bowl over hot water. Then place in the freezer for about 10 minute , checking and stirring regularly, till it thickens and forms a thicker spreadable icing.
  • Then remove from freezer and whisk until thick.
  • Slice the sponge cakes in half and apply the jam generously.
  • Stack the cakes on top of each other and then apply the icing using a spatula or knife.
  • For beetroot petal thinly slice raw beetroot and place in oven for an hour at 100c until crisp and then dust with edible glitter.
  • Decorate as you wish and enjoy fresh.

Notes

To make the icing shinier and smoother place a knife in boiling water and use it to smooth the top of the icing to get a good finish.
If you forget about the icing and it freezes - don't panic just melt again over some boiling water.
Blackberry, strawberry and any other sort of jam would taste great in this cake!