Chocolate with ground nuts cake covered in fondant

Name: Chocolate with ground nuts cake covered in fondant
Total time: 900 s
Yield: 3people
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 500 g icing sugar; 1 tsp glycerine; 1 tsp gelatin; 1 tsp shortening; 50 g glucose powder; 30 ml cold water; Drops orange oil; 2 parts icing sugar; 1 part butter

Josephine Kemunto @cook_14256400

Nairobi

#fondant_challenge

Josephine Kemunto @cook_14256400

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Ingredients

15mins

3people

500 gicing sugar
1 tspglycerine
1 tspgelatin
1 tspshortening
50 gglucose powder
30 mlcold water
Dropsorange oil
For crumb coating
2parts icing sugar
1part butter

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Steps

15mins

1

Prepare your ingredients.....sift your icing sugar and set a side...
2

Using a steel bowl....sprinkle gelatin into the water leave it for 10mins to bloom...
3

When bloomed add glucose powder, shortening, and glycerine....
4

Add drops of orange oil for extra flavour.....put in a double boiler to warm...
5

Create a well in you icing sugar, pour your gelatin mixture little by little using you hand knead....work faster at this point.....now transfer to a clean flat surface
6

Knead on a flat surface until not that sticky....cover in a clinc film....leave it to rest over night to use the next day.
7

Remember our chocolate nuts cake.....crumb coat with butter cream ratio of 2:1......knead fondant alittle before rolling.....roll out according to the size of your cake.....now cover your cake
8

Cut out extra fondant, using smoothers to straighten your cake.......roll out again the cut out fondant and cover your board....apply some butter cream before you stuck you cake
9

Decorate as desired I used the quilt mold below to make the pattern on the cake......enjoy!