Snow man cake 2015

So this is Christmas…..

…..and oh, have we (Caroline and I) been looking forward to this!! It’s finally December, the house is one big Christmas decoration and the excuses for baking cakes are just lining up.

First Christmas cake of 2015 went to my colleagues (I went there to pick up my Christmas present and didn’t want to come empty handed).

The cake is 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

1. 2 tea spoons of cinnamon, 1 tea spoon of clove and 1 tea spoon of cardamom,
2. 1 tea spoon of natron (hydrated sodium carbonate) dissolved in 1 dl of buttermilk and
3. 250 grams of flour.

Poor into a well greased baking tray and baked for approx. 20 min at 180 degrees.

The cake was covered in 1:1 ganache (100 ml of boiling cream poured over 100 grams of fine chopped chocolate, stirred and chilled until it feels like butter).

Then there was a layer of marzipan and finally covered in fondant.

The snowman, leaves and snowballs were all made out of fondant.