Sprinkle & spice caramel fault-line cake
Fault-line cakes have been a hot trend in 2020, and with our easy step-by-step recipe, you can create your own for a festive centrepiece. It’s worth investing in some special baking equipment to make this cake (see our tips, right), and in finding suitably glitzy sprinkles.
SERVES 18-20
PREP 50 mins plus cooling and chilling
COOK 1 hr
MORE EFFORT V sponges only
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200ml whole milk
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4 tbsp golden syrup
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300ml vegetable oil, plus extra for the tins
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500g plain flour
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4 tsp baking powder
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500g light brown soft sugar
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2 tsp ground cinnamon
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4 small pinches of ground cloves
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400ml buttermilk (if you can’t get buttermilk, use 300g Greek yogurt mixed with 100ml milk)
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4 medium eggs
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2 tsp vanilla extract
For the buttercream icing and caramel layers
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500g slightly salted butter, softened
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1kg icing sugar
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2 tsp vanilla extract splash of milk (optional)
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150g canned caramel
For the decoration
50g sprinkles (we used a mixture of gold, bronze, and metallic purple, red and turquoise – a mixture of different colours and shapes will give the best result), plus extra for the top (optional)edible gold decorating pen, or edible gold lustre mixed with a few drops of clear spirit (such as vodka)
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