Black Currant Geode Cake

About the Recipe

Impress your guests and make your celebrations worthwhile by baking varied types of cakes. Your guests will be astonished if you make a cake with a geode effect. By carving off pieces of the cake and filling them with edible crystals, such as rock candy. Geode cakes mimic the appearance of a naturally occurring rock formation. The crystals are then painted to resemble geodes in nature. By lining the baking pan with Oddy Ecobake, a non-stick, food-safe, and heat-resistant material, the cake is baked in a preheated kadhai.

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Ingredients

Chocolate cake premix- 1 cup & Water- ½ cup
Sugar syrup & Whipping cream
Black currant crush & Purple gel food colour
Rock candy or Mishri & Golden dust
Liquid evaporator & Artificial flowers
Oddy Ecobake

Directions

Mix chocolate cake premix with water gradually to make a smooth batter. Transfer the batter to the 5-inch baking pan lined with Oddy Ecobake, cut to the size of the base of the baking pan.
Spread and tap well. Bake the cake for 5 minutes on a medium flame and 30 minutes on a low flame in a preheated kadai. Cool completely and unmold.
Cut the cake into three layers. Soak with sugar syrup and spread whipping cream and black currant jam using a spatula. Repeat the process for other layers, placing the middle layer on top.
Cream coat the cake with cream and smooth it. Refrigerate for 10 minutes. Add purple gel food colour to the whipping cream and spread on the cake. Smooth and create a pattern on the sides using a cake comb.
Chunk portions of cake as shown. Apply cream to the carved portions. Clean the cake board. Set rock candy in the carved portions as shown.
Mix golden dust with liquid evaporator and make gold colour for the geode effect. Paint the geode effect with gold, as shown. Fill the effect completely as shown, filling the gaps.
Make the outline on the top with gold colour and sprinkle it on the cake. Set artificial flowers on the top. The beautiful geode-effect cake is ready.

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Dharmis Cake-n-Bake

Dharmis Cake-n-Bake is run by Dharmishta Kholiya and Mansi Chotaliya. They started this channel especially for sharing baking tips and tricks for making different types of cakes. Not only this, but they also share their secret tips!