Cooking and Recipes: Double Layered Cake (Basic)

I baked this cake for my mom’s birthday along with my brother and we wished her at midnight with this lovely cake. It has one layer of vanilla sponge cake and the other is of Strawberry sponge cake. I have uploaded recipes of both earlier. And the frosting was chocolate buttercream frosting. The cake turned out to be great but I have one tip for you – use unsalted butter for the frosting. If you don’t have unsalted butter, just use less butter. You wouldn’t like the frosting to be too salty.

Here are all the ingredients which you need for both the cakes and the frosting combined.

INGREDIENTS –

(sponge cakes)

2/3 cup melted butter

400 ml condensed milk

150 ml yogurt/curd

1 cup all purpose flour

1/3 cup strawberry crush

1 tsp baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

Vanilla essence

(frosting)

½ cup melted butter ( preferably unsalted butter)

½ cup sugar

½ cup melted chocolate

¼ cup cream

METHOD –

1. Take a bowl.

2. Add melted butter and whisk..

3. Add condensed milk and whisk again.

4. Add the yogurt and vanilla essence and mix well.

5. Put the oven for pre-heating.

6. Sieve into the bowl all purpose flour, baking powder and baking soda. Gently fold in the mixture.

7. Divide the batter into 2 portions.

8. To one portion add strawberry crush and mix well.

9. Take 2 cake baking moulds and grease them. Pour vanilla cake batter into one and strawberry cake batter into the other.

10.Bake at 170 degrees celcius for about 15-20 minutes.

11. You know that the cakes are ready when a knife inserted into the cakes comes out clean.

12.Take out the cakes and allow them to cool while you prepare the chocolate frosting.

13. Take a bowl and add melted butter (preferably unsalted) into it. Whisk well.

14. Add sugar and whisk.

15. Add melted chocolate and mix well. You might add more chocolate than the recipe calls for for a richer chocolate taste!

16. Finally, add cream and whisk again.

17. Refrigerate for about 10 minutes before using.

18. Place one of the sponge cakes, which you want to make the lower layer, on a tray and apply some of the chocolate frosting on its top.

19. Place the other sponge cake on this layer of frosting. Apply some frosting on the upper surface of this cake too and also on the sides of the 2 cakes. The frosting does not have to be completely even because this is only the first layer.