Derick's Surprise Space Cake

Recipe by: Derick

Bottom Tier Chocolate Sponge

1 1/4 cup sugar
4 eggs
2 tablespoons apricot jam
One cup boiling water
Half cup canola oil
Half a cup cocoa powder
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
Half teaspoon salt

Preheat the oven to 180°C
In a stand mixer whip the eggs sugar and jam till fluffy and the light
Mix the water oil and cocoa powder till combined
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt and add to the egg mixture. Mix till just combined
Add the cocoa powder mixture and mix well
Divide the batter equally into three 15cm solid cake tins lined with baking paper and greased.
Bake at 180°C for 15 minutes or till a clean pin can be extracted.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes before turning out onto a cake rack. Chill completely before decorating.

Top Tier Vanilla Sponge

2 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Half teaspoon salt
Quarter teaspoon baking soda
Four eggs
1.5 cup sugar
One cup oil
One cup of buttermilk
2 teaspoons vanilla paste

Beat the eggs sugar oil butter milk and vanilla paste till smooth and fluffy
Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Add spoons full to the egg mixture and mix on low speed.
Combine everything and mix till just combined. Do not over mix
Grease two semi-sphere cake mold pans well and dust with flour.
Fill each sphere to 3/4 from the top and bake at 180° for 30 to 35 minutes
Taste with a skewer and when baked remove spheres to cool.
Allowed to cool for 15 minutes then turn out onto a cooling rack. Chill completely before icing.

CBD Gummy Sphere

One cup pineapple flavored water
4 tablespoons gelatin
1 tablespoon sugar
Half teaspoon citric acid
1 or 2 tablespoon CBD cannabis oil
Three drops yellow food coloring

In a small saucepan heat the pineapple water sugar and citric acid till the sugar is dissolved.
Allowed to cool slightly then add the gelatin, stirring dissolved
Add the yellow food coloring and mix through.
Fill 3 cm severe molds to the very top and refrigerate for 90min

Decorating

For the bottom tier – core out the center of two of the layers of chocolate cake using a cookie cutter of 15 cm. Stack the two layers on top of one another using buttercream filling in between. Fill the cavity with Astros and jellybeans. Place the third layer on top with buttercream filling. Decorate the three layer bottom tier as you wish and set in the fridge to chill.
For the top-tier – remove the CBD jelly‘s from the fridge and using a heated tablespoon, melt the flat surface of each layer before joining them together. Set back in the fridge to fuse together.
If necessary, trim excess sponge till the haves can form a perfect ball. Remove the center core from each half, roughly the size of your gummy globe. Slot the gummy severe in the center and of the vanilla globe, and fused together with buttercream icing. Balance the sphere on a 5 cm cake board using icing, and allow it to chill in the fridge to set.
Use 2 or 3 cake dowels on the periphery of the chocolate tier. Set the vanilla globe on top of the chocolate tier off-center. Decorate the globe as you wish with a quirky theme.