Cream the butter and the sugar by putting the butter and the 2 cups of sugar into a mixer and mix it until creamy.

Break all 12 eggs in a bowl and using a whisker, whisk the eggs until smooth and fluffy.

Add the whisked eggs into the creamed butter and sugar. Using the mixer again, mix until fluffy, add the 3 teaspoon of vanilla flavor and mix again.

Now to preheat your oven, turn on the oven to 150°c or 302°f so that it can heat up while you are mixing the cake.

Seive the 4 cups of flour plus the 2 teaspoons of baking powder bit by bit to the wet ingredients and using a spatula, mix thoroughly to get a dropping consistency.

Take half of the cake mix and add cocoa powder, and leave the other half plain.

Now grease your cake pan using butter. And using a laddle, pour the chocolate cake mix followed by the plain cake mix bit by bit.

Transfer the pan into the preheated oven and allow to bake for at least 45 minutes.

While the cake is baking you can now make the butter icing and the fondant.

To make the butter icing you will need: Butter Icing sugar & Food colour. Mix them altogether and add the colour of your choice.

To make the fondant you will need: Gelatin Icing sugar Water & Food colour. Mix them altogether and also add the colour of your choice

And when the cake is baked, allow it to cool and decorate it with the fondant and icing sugar.