No second Sunday in Advent without a Christmas party, and no Christmas
party without a Christmas tree cake.
The cake was the traditional Christmas cake better know as P’s brown
cake:
Melt 100 grams of butter, 100 grams of sugar and 100 grams of syrup (don’t
boil too much as it will turn in to a thick caramel and burn).
Once cooled down a bit add
- 2 tea spoons of cinnamon, 1 tea spoon of clove and 1 tea spoon of cardamom,
- 1 tea spoon of natron (hydrated sodium carbonate) dissolved in 1 dl of buttermilk and
- 250 grams of flour.
Poor into a well greased baking tray and baked for approx. 20 min at 180
degrees.
The cake was cut into 6 circles (9, 8, 7, 6, 5 and 4 cm in diameter and
“glued” together with 1:1 ganache (100 ml of boiling cream poured over 100 grams
of fine chopped chocolate, stirred and chilled until it feels like butter) to
form a cone.
Then the “cone” was covered in 1:1 ganache and marzipan cut out in
triangles. Finally, candy canes and Christmas balls made out of fondant were
added.
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