Jane's Christmas Tree Cake

Join the brilliant Jane Beedle (GBBO Finalist, series 7) live from Kent, UK who will guide you through baking her delicious Christmas Tree Winterwonderland Cake. Your friends and family this Christmas with this stunning Chocolate and Cherry Winter Wonderland cake. This will soon become a favourite for the festive season, layers of soft chocolate sponge, cherry jam and white chocolate buttercream all decorated in a woodland style. You don’t need to be an expert cake decorator to create this show stopping Christmas cake. HoHoHo!!

The class starts at 5pm UK on Saturday 18th December 2021. We’ll start off the class with an introductory welcome and some background from Jane's time on TV, before we ask you to put on your aprons and bake along as you watch Jane demonstrate all the skills required to make Jane's delicious treats.

Our class will take around 2hours as we bake our masterpieces, before you can tuck into the fruits of your labour all whilst hearing fantastic memories and stories from Jane, Tickets are priced at £35 for individuals and £50 for groups of two or more that will join from the same household. Places are non-refundable and cannot be cancelled or altered after purchase. All guests will be emailed a link to the class following their booking.

Equipment:

3 Medium Bowls 

Heatproof Bowls x3 

Saucepan x2  

3x 8” (20cm) Sponge Tins

Electric Hand Whisk 

Measuring Jug 

Baking Paper  

Palette Knife

Piping Bag 

10” Cake board 

Cooling Rack

Ingredients:

For the Chocolate Cake

225g (16 tbsp) Salted Butter, softened  

325g (1 2/3 cups) Caster Sugar (superfine)

3 Large Eggs*  

1tsp Vanilla Extract

350g (1 ½ cups) Whole Milk  

325g (2 ½ cups) Plain Flour**

60g (1/3 cup + 1 tbsp) Cocoa Powder  

2tsp Baking Powder

1tsp Bicarbonate of soda  

Pinch of Salt

100g (approx. ½ cup) Dark Chocolate, Melted

1tsp Instant Coffee dissolved in 1tbsp hot water

For the White Chocolate Buttercream

300g (approx. 1 2/3 cups) White Chocolate  

250g (1 cup) Unsalted Butter

300g (2 2/3 cups) Icing Sugar

For the Jam

200g (approx. 1–1 ½ cups) Frozen Dark cherries  

150g (¾ cups) Sugar, granulated or caster

Cinnamon stick

For the Decoration:

200g (1 cup) White chocolate + 20g (2 tbsp)   

Chocolate matchmakers or round lolly sticks

300g (1 ½ cups) + 30g (2 tbsp) dark chocolate 

Green gel colouring

Sprinkles Icing sugar for dusting

*UK Large Egg = US Extra-Large Egg

**If using cups, gently spoon flour into measuring cup. Do not pack in.

It is your responsiblity to check the ingredients do not impact any allergies  or intolerances which you may have. Bake With A Legend and our bakers take no responsibility in this regard.

Alternatively we do offer private events, please contact us for more information or click on the ‘Online Classes’ page for more detail. Upon booking, all guests will be emailed a link to the class with a full breakdown of ingredients and equipment as well as the method on the Monday proceeding their class. Please do check junk email just in case you don't spot it arrive!

If you're in any doubt about you then you should contact us before booking in terms of discussing alternative ingredients to suit your requirements.We will, wherever possible provide alternatives to include gluten & dairy free options.