Brown Butter Cake with Berries and Cinnamon Honey

This Brown Butter Cake with Berries and Cinnamon Honey is the ultimate festive season treat. A delicious soft nutty cake, covered and filled with a brown butter buttercream.
Ingredients
- 3 Cups Lurpak Butter
- 2 1/4 Cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 2 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 3/4 Cup Browned Lurpak Butter
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1/2 Cup Light Brown Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 1/2 Cup Buttermilk
- 1/2 Cup Milk
- 2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- Remaining Browned Lurpak Butter
- 1 1/2 Cups Powdered Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 tablespoon Honey
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
Instructions
- 1
--- For the Brown Butter: ---
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Place the butter in a large shaloow pan over low/medium heat.
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Cook the butter until it begins to brown and has a nutty flavor (stir often)
- 4
Immediately pour the butter into 2 separate bowls (1/4 of the butter in one and ¾ of the butter in the other).
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Place the bowls in the fridge to firm up and cool down.
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--- For the cake: ---
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Preheat the oven to 180ºC and line 2 20cm cake tins with baking paper.
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Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl and whisk until combined.
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In a stand mixture fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter with both sugars until light and fluffy.
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Add the eggs and vanilla and continue to beat the mixture.
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Add the butter cream and mix until just combined.
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Add the flour mixture and milk a little at a time.
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Mix until just combined.
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Pour the batter into the cake tins and bake the cakes for 45min or until a for inserted comes out clean.
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--- For the Buttercream: ---
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Place the remaining browned butter in a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachement.
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Whisk on high speed until light and fluffy.
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Add the icing sugar and vanilla and continue to whisk until combined.
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--- Assembling the cake: ---
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Slice each cake in half (only if you want 4 layers) and stack them on top of each other, topping each layer with browned butter buttercream.
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Once all the layers have been stacked and iced, place the cake in the fridge for at least 20min.
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Meanwhile, place the honey in a small cup and place it in the microwave for 30sec – 1min, then whisk in the cinnamon.
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Once the cake has chilled, remove it from the fridge and spread the remaining frosting around the cake.
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Place the cake back in the fridge for another 20min.
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Top the cake with fresh blackberries, cherries, rosemary and a few drizzles of the honey mixture.
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