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Jaffa Cake Cake

Ingredients

For the cake

  • 2 cups plain flour
  • 2 cups caster sugar
  • 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 3/4 cups cocoa powder
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup hot coffee

For the jelly layers

  • 1 sachet hartleys instant jelly
  • 3 sheets gelatin
  • 500 ml orange juice

For the ganache

  • 400 ml double cream
  • 400 g dark chocolate
  • 1 pack Jaffa Cakes to decorate

Instructions

To make the cake

  1. Preheat your oven to 180c/160c fan oven and grease and line 3 8 inch cake pans.

  2. In a large bowl sift in the flour, cocoa and bicarbonate of soda and then mix in the sugar. In a separate bowl add the buttermilk, oil, coffee and eggs and whisk together.

  3. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix until combined. Divide the mix between the three tins and bake in the oven for 30 mins or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Leave them to cool.

To make the jelly layers

  1. Place the gelatin sheets in some cold water and leave to soak for 5 minutes.

  2. Heat up the orange juice in a pan and when hot remove from the heat, add in the gelatin sheets and the sachet of orange jelly crystals. Stir until fully dissolved.

  3. Line two 8 inch cake pans with cling film. be careful not to rip any holes in as the jelly will just leak out. Pour the jelly mixture between the two pans and leave it to set.

To make the ganache

  1. Heat up the double cream.

  2. Chop up the chocolate and then stir it into the hot cream.

  3. Leave it to cool, you could put it in to the fridge to speed it up but don't leave it too long as it will be set too hard. You want it to be set enough that its a spreadable consistency but thick enough so that it wont run off the sides of the cake.

  4. When it is at the right consistency whip it up using an electric whisk, it will become paler in colour.

To assemble the cake

  1. On a plate or cake stand place one of your cake layers. Spread a thin layer of the ganache, just enough to stick the jelly. Carefully remove one jelly layer from the cling film and place it on top of the cake layer. Add another thin layer of ganache and add the second cake layer.

  2. Repeat this process with the other jelly layer and cake layer.

  3. Cover the entire cake with the remaining ganache leaving just a little to pipe a few swirls on the top. Use the Jaffa Cakes to decorate the top of your cake and you're finished