Name: White chocolate sponge with butterscotch sauce
Prep time: 1 min
Cook time: 1 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: Desserts & Baking
Ingredients: For the white chocolate sponge ,Woolworths white chocolate drops, melted 200g,flour 320g,bicarbonate of soda ½t,baking powder 1¾t,buttermilk 1¼cups,butter, melted 100g,oil ½cup,sugar 250g,free-range eggs 4,vanilla paste 1t,For the buttercream: ,Woolworths white chocolate drops, melted 300g,butter, softened 230g,icing sugar 800g,cream 6T,salt ¼t,For the spun sugar: ,sugar 200g,For white chocolate crown: ,Woolworths white chocolate drops, melted 100g,To decorate: ,edible gold leaf ,edible gold balls ,caramel popcorn ,honeycomb

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Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 20 minutes, plus overnight chilling time

Cooking Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

250 g butter
200 g sugar
3 free-range eggs
1 cup strong coffee
100 g fonio
120 g flour
1 t baking powder
3⁄4 cup milk

For the coffee syrup:

1 cup strong coffee
100 g brown sugar
salt a pinch

For the strained amasi:

4 cups full-cream amasi

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Cream the butter and sugar until pale, smooth and airy. Whisk in the eggs, one at a time, then whisk in the coffee. The mixture may split slightly but don’t panic – it all comes together in the end.

2 Gently stir in the fonio. Sift in the flour and baking powder and fold through using a spatula. Stir in the milk. Grease a 24 cm loaf tin well.

3. Pour the cake mixture into the tin and bake for 35 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean. Remove from the oven and cool to room temperature before slicing thickly.

4. To make the coffee syrup, place the coffee, sugar and salt in a saucepan
and bring to a gentle simmer, stirring a few times, until the sugar has dissolved completely. Cook to make a thickish syrup. Allow to cool.

5. To make the amasi, place a piece of muslin cloth over the top of a bucket, securing it with clothes pegs. Pour in the amasi and place the bucket in the fridge overnight. Once strained, dollop over the cake and drizzle with the coffee syrup.

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Photographs: Jan Ras
Production: Khanya Mzongwana

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