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Pomegranate, cranberry and white chocolate cake
Pomegranate, cranberry and white chocolate cake
Creamy, fluffy and rich, this white chocolate layer cake is studded with tart cranberries and topped with juicy jewels of pomegranate
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Ready in 50 minutes
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Cooking time 30 minutes
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Prep time 20 minutes
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Serves 12
Ingredients
- 200 g unsalted English butter by Sainsbury's, softened
- 200 g Fairtrade white caster sugar by Sainsbury's
- 1 tsp Fairtrade ground cinnamon by Sainsbury's
- 4 medium British free-range Woodland eggs by Sainsbury's
- 200 g Sainsbury's self-raising flour
- 100 g ground almonds by Sainsbury's
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 100 g dried sweetened cranberries, chopped
- 2 tbsp semi-skimmed milk
- 300 ml pot double cream by Sainsbury's
- 400 g cook's Belgian white chocolate by Sainsbury's, broken up
- 1 tbsp icing sugar
- 3 tbsp pomegranate seeds
- 1 tbsp white chocolate curls, shaved from a chocolate bar with a vegetable peeler
Method
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1
Preheat the oven to 180°C, fan 160°C, gas 4. Line 2x20cm round cake tins with baking parchment.
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In a large bowl, beat the butter, sugar and cinnamon until light and creamy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the flour, almonds and baking powder, then stir in the cranberries and milk.
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Divide the mixture between the tins, then level. Bake for 30 minutes, until golden and beginning to shrink from the sides of the tin. Cool on a wire rack.
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4
Meanwhile, make the icing. Pour the cream into a pan and bring to a simmer over a low heat. Pour over the chocolate, stirring to melt in the residual heat. When melted, cool slightly then chill in the fridge for 1½ hours, until the mixture is cold and has a thick spreading consistency. Whip with an electric hand mixer until light and fluffy.
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5
Sandwich the two cakes together with some of the icing, then cover the whole cake with the remaining icing, creating texture with a palette knife. Sprinkle over the pomegranate seeds and chocolate curls and sift on the icing sugar.
