Spiced Cake

Place all dry ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer and mix on low to combine.

Add butter to dry ingredients and mix on low until the mixture resembles bread crumbs.

Mix together wet ingredients.

Add 2/3 of the wet mixture to the dry ingredients and mix on med high until thick and fluffy.

Add remaining wet ingredients and mix well until combined.

Scoop mixture evenly into 3x 7" round tins and bake at 180 degrees until golden brown and when poked with a skewer the skewer comes out clean.

Allow to cool in tins for 5-10min then turn out onto drying racks

Rum Infused Custard Buttercream

Place butter in a mixing bowl and fit with the beater attachment. Beat butter on high until light in colour, add sifted icing sugar and beat until fluffy and well combined.  Add custard beating to combine, add rum in thirds beating well after each addition.

White Chocolate Ganache

Heat cream on stove top on low heat until just begins to boil.

Pour heated cream over chocolate and allow to sit for approx. 5 min or until chocolate has melted.

Using a whisk mix together melted chocolate and cream.

If chocolate has not completely melted, put in microwave at 10 second intervals stirring each time until chocolate is melted.

Assembly

Step 1

Trim tops off cakes so they are flat

Step 2

Start with one layer of cake, soak with 2 tsp rum, top with buttercream and custard ensuring you pipe a line of buttercream around the edge of the cake like a dam to ensure no custard leaks out

Step 3

Add the second layer of cake and press firmly making sure the layers are aligned and level then repeat step 2

Step 4

Add the 3rd layer of cake and press firmly making sure the layers are aligned and level

Step 5

Crumb coat entire cake with buttercream and chill for approx. 20min

Step 6

Completely cover cake in buttercream approx. 1cm thick all over, smoothing evenly with and off set spatula and chill for another 30min

Step 7

Pour ganache over top of the cake using your offset spatula to push the ganache to the edges and allowing it to drizzle down the sides being careful not to push to much over

Step 8

Using a piping bag and a nozzle pipe row of dolloped icing around the top of the cake, pour more custard in the center of the cake

Cake should be kept chilled and bought to room temp before eating. Enjoy!