Ever wanted to make a Jetstar plane cake but didn't know how? Well now you do :)

It's time to get baking!

Jetstar plane cake recipe 

Ingredients

• 350 grams chocolate
• 225 grams unsalted butter
• 600 mls water
• 3 eggs lightly whisked
• 400 grams of sugar
• 400 grams of self-raising flour
• 100 grams of dark chocolate
• 80 grams of cream
• Pre-purchased fondant icing

Method

1. Prep the cake

• Heat the chocolate, unsalted butter and water slowly in a pot until melted and then let it cool for 15 minutes
• One it has cooled, add in the eggs, sugar and self-raising flour and mix with a whisk until all ingredients are combined
• Line the cake tin and fill tin with cake batter ¾ full
• Place the tin in a low oven (150 °C) and bake for around two hours or until skewer comes out clean
• Once baked, leave the cake to cool in the tin

2. Make the ganache

• Melt the dark chocolate and cream in bowl over a saucepan of water on the stove and leave it to cool until it thickens slightly
• Once cool, carve the cake into the shape of a plane using the stencil provided, cover with ganache and smooth all over

3. Decorate the cake

• Wet cake slightly with water and roll out fondant
• Core the entire body of the cake with the fondant and smooth out
• Using the stencils provided [PDF, 84kB], roll out the different features of the plane using the fondant (windows, wings etc.) and decorate as you please!