You need:
- 200 gr butter
- 200 gr sugar
- 140 gr plain flour
- 4 eggs
- 60 gr cocoa powder
- 2 tsp baking powder
- a pinch of salt
- buttercream (you can make it by beating well 250 gr butter, 500 gr icing sugar and 100 gr cocoa, but we cheated a bit and bought it ready made at the supermarket)
- lots of chocolate cigarillos (you can buy them at www.chocolatetradingco.com). You need around 350 gr for the cake but my children (and I) ate a fair amount of them while arranging them on the cake.
- strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, pomegranate seeds
- a bit of vegetable oil for greasing the cake tin
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and line and grease the cake tin (with the vegetable oil).
With an electric mixer cream the butter and sugar. Add two eggs and half of the flour and mix it all well. Add the rest of the eggs, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt and mix it. Put it all into the tin and bake it for 40-45 minutes (the recipe calls for 30-40 minutes but we needed more time)
When the cake is cool, cut it in half with a serrated knife. Put the upper layer at the bottom, cover it with buttercream, put the bottom layer of the cake on top and cover it all (top and sides) with a generous amount of buttercream. Let the buttercream harden in the fridge for 30 minutes and cover it all again (top and sides) with even more buttercream.
Stick the cigarillos on the sides of the cake and put the red fruit on top.
The cake is rather deceptive because it looks light and elegant but it is actually rather heavy (tonnes of buttercream) If you can forget the amount of calories it is actually very delicious.
