Ingredients
Sheet cake
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330g butter, softened
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2 cups (330g) caster sugar
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4 large eggs, room temperature
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3 tsp Queen Vanilla Bean Paste
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2 ¼ cups (340g) self-raising flour
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¾ tsp ground nutmeg
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½ tsp ground cinnamon
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1 cup + 1 tbsp (270ml) full cream milk
White Chocolate Buttercream
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200g White Choc Melts
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250g unsalted butter, room temperature
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1 2/3 cup (250g) icing sugar
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3 tsp Queen Vanilla Bean Paste
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½ tsp Nutmeg
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Queen Green Food Colour
Method - Sheet Cake
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1
Preheat oven to 180°C (fan forced). Grease & line a 20 x 30cm sheet cake tin.
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2
Using a stand mixer or hand mixer, cream butter, sugar & Queen Vanilla Extract until light & fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well in between. Add flour, Nutmeg, Cinnamon & milk, mix to combine.
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3
Pour into prepared tin & bake for 55-60 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Allow to cool in tin for 10 minutes, before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Method - White Chocolate Buttercream
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1
Place White Choc Melts in a heat proof bowl, melt in 30 second increments in the microwave, stirring until melted & smooth. Set aside to cool to room temp.
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2
Beat butter, icing sugar, Vanilla Bean Paste & Nutmeg until light & fluffy (about 5 minutes). Add cooled White Choc Melts, mix to incorporate. Set aside.
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3
Spread 2 cups of buttercream over the cake. Colour the remaining with Queen Green Food Colour. Spoon into piping bag fitted with a star tip. Using a knife, roughly mark out a triangle tree shape on the spread icing. Pipe rosettes & stars within the tree shape. Top with Queen Unicorn Confetti sprinkles, then pipe on gold “tinsel” and add a gold star with Gold Queen Metallic Writing Icing Gels.
Tip: Use a star cookie cutter and press into the icing to create an outline to pipe writing icing onto.
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