The MOST Delicious Bailey's Cream Cake!!

Into your stand mixer add softened butter at room temperature, then you want to add your sugar and mix everything together until it becomes nice and even into a smooth paste and kind of combined together just like that. Then you want to add your eggs and mix everything together one more time, just slowly incorporate all the ingredients. In a bowl we want to sift our flour together with salt, baking powder and cocoa powder then just sieve everything together so you get rid of any bits mix all your mixture together and then it's ready to be added into our wet mixture and we want to add a little bit at a time first we're going to add Bailey's then our dry ingredients and mix that together once that's completely mixed in you'll be able to see no more flour bits you're going to add more Bailey's and then more of your dry mixture and then you probably can do half and half that's what i did and once everything is mixed in you'll be able to see that the mixture is beautiful and chocolatey and kind of all even you don't want to mix any more than that so the sponge is nice and soft take a new bowl add egg whites in there and we're going to whisk this on high speed with your whisker until you start to see nice and foamy mixture it should be nice and foamy just like that and then we're going to add a little bit at a time first we're going to add a small spoon mix it in together and then we're going to keep adding our egg whites together with our cake until you start to see that there is no white bits left and the egg whites are incorporated with our sponge cake you want to do it quite gently and mix it from the sides to the bottom to make sure everything is mixed in together and the mixture will look just like that then take your tins i'm using a 20 centimeter one and then line it with some parchment paper and i've sprayed it with some cooking oil around and on top and then I'm adding my delicious Bailey's chocolate sponge in the middle you want to make sure it's nice and even so just spread it around and I'm gonna cut this cake in half but if you wanted to you can bake it in 220 centimeter tins and then bake that for 15 to 20 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius or 350 Fahrenheit once your cake is done you You want to make sure it's nice and cool so leave it on a wiring rack to cool down. Next we're going to make our cream so add your heavy or double cream into a bowl together with icing sugar and you can add less or more, depends how sweet you like your cake. Then add Baileys and we're going to mix everything together until it's nice and foamy and make sure you don't over whisk the mixture, you want the cream to be nice and soft. everything into your piping bag and then make sure it's completely filled to the top you can use any nozzle that you wish because I'm covering the cake all over it doesn't really matter for me and then you can place the cream in a fridge while you prepare your layers so I've cut my cake in half and then the first layer I'm just gonna use more Bailey's and dip my brush into the Bailey's and then go around the cake this will make sure that the cake is nice and super moist and has that super yummy Baileys flavor. This cake cannot be any more boozier than it is already. Then add your apricot jam and spread it all over your sponge. This will act as a glue for the marzipan layer that we're about to do. So to roll out your marzipan just add some icing flour on top and then use a rolling pin and then move it around until the shape you desire. Then take our cake stand and cut out the shape that we want and this will be our marzipan filling that we're going to place on top of our cake and like I said the apricot jam will act as the glue so just press down and it should be stuck nice and well on top of that then add your delicious Bailey's cream all around the cake and you can add less or more frosting it's completely up to you and then I'm topping it up with my second half I decided to cover the whole cake in Bailey's cream to make it super yummy so I've also decided to go with this funky design feel free to decorate your cake as you wish I'm just going through three lines across and then two or three lines across again so kind of creates this check look and then I'm covering my cake all around spreading the cream and making sure that it's completely white and covered I think this cake is so yummy and so perfect for anybody who likes chocolate booze marzipan so yeah really really good combinations then you want to add some more apricot jam into the little squares that we've piped and that will add that creaminess and like tartness to the cake as well and I'm also topping it up with some melted dark chocolate again like I said feel free to decorate however you like and I'm adding some beautiful flowers and there it is our Bailey's chocolate cake is done it's one of my favorite boozy cakes there is I hope you enjoyed this recipe ideally you want to place this into the fridge so it's nice and set at least for four hours or so and then it's ready to eat it cuts through really really nice and easy the layers are super