Ingredients (14 servings):
Cake:
2 dl flour
1 tsp baking powder
1,5 dl kakao
4 tsp vanilla sugar (or 2 tsp vanilla extract)
1 tsp salt
6 eggs
4 dl sugar
500g quark or cream cheese
½ dl raspberry jam
Buttercream:
150 g soft butter
340 g icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp whipping cream
1/2 tsp? black food coloring
How to:
Cake:
Turn your oven at 200 C. Mix together flour, baking powder, cacao, vanilla and salt. Then whisk the eggs and sugar and then add the quark/cream cheese, when it’s all combined add the flour mix a little at a time. Pour the mixture into 2 greased round pans and put them in on the lower part of the oven for about 25 minutes. Take them out and let them cool completely. Then cut them in half, and just stack them up together again. take one of the cakes and cut it out to a moon shape so it will fit around the other round cake. Then carve out 2 ears from the leftover pies and place all the pieces together into a totoro shape. Take off the top layer and add the raspberry jam in the middle and then put them back together.
Buttercream:
Whip the butter until it turns to a lighter color (about 5 minutes). Then add the icing sugar, half at a time. When that is all combined add the vanilla and 1 tbsp of whipping cream at a time until you are happy with the result. Put about ⅓ of the butter cream into a seperate bowl (this is for the crumb coat and the white stomach.) Then add the black food coloring to the other ⅔ part and blend until it turns into the light grey color you wanted.
Lastly it’s time to assemble. Add the crumb coat and put the cake in the fridge for about 1 hour to solidify. Then add another layer of the white cream to the stomach and smooth it out. Put your grey buttercream in a piping bag with a star tip and start making little pointy peaks on the cake where you want Totoros grey parts. Then roll out a little bit of white fondant and a little bit of black fondant att cut out the eyes, nose and whiskers and add them onto the cake.
Leave the cake in the fridge for at least 1 hour before serving!