Chocolate and strawberry gateaux

Name: Chocolate and strawberry gateaux
Yield: 2kgs
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 2 eggs; 2 cups all purpose flour; 2 teaspoon baking powder; 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 3/4 cups unsweetened cocoa powder; 2 cups sugar; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 tsp Vanilla essence; 1/2 cup oil; 1 teaspoon espresso; 1 cup buttermilk; 1 cup boiling water; strawberry cake; 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour; 1/2 cup buttermilk; 1/2 cup oil; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder; 2 eggs; 3/4 cups sugar; 1 1/2 teaspoon strawberry essence; Food colouring(strawberry red); For icing; 3 sticks butter; Food colouring; Cocoa powder; As desired; Strawberry; 250 gms icing sugar

Halima Omari @cook_12404960

Nairobi

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Halima Omari @cook_12404960

Nairobi

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Ingredients

2kgs

2eggs
2 cupsall purpose flour
2 teaspoonbaking powder
1 1/2 teaspoonbaking soda
3/4 cupsunsweetened cocoa powder
2 cupssugar
1 teaspoonsalt
2 tspVanilla essence
1/2 cupoil
1 teaspoonespresso
1 cupbuttermilk
1 cupboiling water
strawberry cake
1 1/4 cupsall purpose flour
1/2 cupbuttermilk
1/2 cupoil
1/2 teaspoonbaking soda
1 1/4 teaspoonbaking powder
2eggs
3/4 cupssugar
1 1/2 teaspoonstrawberry essence
Food colouring(strawberry red)
For icing
3 sticksbutter
Food colouring
Cocoa powder
As desired
Strawberry
250 gmsicing sugar

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Steps

1

Preheat oven to 180 degrees and line 2 1kg pans with parchment and grease
2

For chocolate cake add all dry ingredients together and sift
3

Beat all wet ingredients and add in the dry ingredients together
4

Reduce speed and add in the boiling water
5

Pour in the batter into the pan
6

Bake until toothpick comes out clean
7

For strawberry cake prepare as vanilla recipe below
8

For icing, beat the butter and sugar until soft and fluffy add some milk optional
9

Divide into half add cocoa and colour respectively
10

Decorate.
11

Bind the cake using buttercream