ROSe Cake

Rose cake is a simple cake with mild flavours and tastes heavenly. Here is my favourite Rose flavoured cake with rose butter cream.

What do you do when your husband brings you flowers??? You smile 🙂 you hug him 🙂 you feel special 🙂 you then arrange it in a vase, keep looking at it now an then at those beauties…and then!!!! You make a cake out of few of those 🙂  It was my sister- in – law’s birthday as well, what better occasion to try out a new cake.

So presenting the ALL LOVE ROSE CAKE… My family fought for their share and for more.

 

Ingredients
4 nos -Eggs
2 cups – Sugar
1 tsp – Rose water
2-1/4 cups – All-purpose flour
2-1/4 tsp – Baking powder
1-1/4 cups – Milk
10 tbs – Butter
2 drops – Rose extract
2 nos – Pink organic home grown rose

For Butter Cream

250 gms – Unsalted white butter, room temperature

2 tbsps – Fresh cream

1/4 cup – Icing sugar

1 tsp – Rose extract

 

Method

Prepare two 4″ tin with baking paper

Preheat the oven to 170°C.

In a large bowl, beat eggs for a minute.

When little bubbles start forming gradually start adding sugar, beating until mixture doubles into a silky foam.

Beat in rose extract.

Sieve together flour and baking powder well. Gradually add to batter; beat at low speed until smooth.

In a small saucepan, heat milk, rose petals and butter just until butter is melted.

Add rose water to this and gradually add to batter; beat until just combined.

Divide the batter into the tins.

Bake for 25 to 30 mins or until the toothpick comes out clean.

Butter Cream

For the butter cream, beat the butter till it is pale and soft, for about 5 minutes

Add rose extract and give it a good mix.

Add icing sugar and cream alternately till the butter cream is smooth and silky.

Layering

Mix 1/2 a cup of sugar in a cup of water and heat it till all the sugar is dissolved.

Take first layer of the cake and place it on the cake stand.

Using a brush soak the cake with the sugar syrup.

Add 2 huge dollops of  butter cream and spread it evenly.

Place the second layer and soak it with sugar syrup.

Spread buttercream on top and sides as desired.

Decorate it with fresh roses.