Briony May Williams festive chocolate wreath cake with coffee recipe on Lorraine

Briony May Williams served up a delicious chocolate wreath cake with instant coffee for Christmas on Lorraine.

The ingredients are: 400g self-raising flour, 500g golden caster sugar, 1 tsp salt, 100g cocoa powder, 1 tsp baking powder, 170ml vegetable oil, 3 medium eggs, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 300ml whole milk and 300ml boiling water & 2 tsp instant coffee.

Chocolate Buttercream: 400g unsalted butter, softened, 800g icing sugar, 200g dark chocolate, melted, 60g cocoa powder and 30ml milk to loosen, if needed.

To decorate: Ribbon, tied into a bow, Fresh rosemary sprigs, Few handfuls of berries – cranberries and red currants and Edible gold glitter dust.




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