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| The Perfect Cake for The Children To Make |
Light vanilla sponge, sandwiched together with lashings of strawberry jam and cream, topped off with fresh strawberries, blueberries and white chocolate. Oh this is a seriously glorious cake indeed! I know that using strawberries and blueberries to make a union jack is quite a well known idea, and I loved this one in particular in the Telegraph .. so I'll make no claims to this being my original idea, but my twist is in the addition of white chocolate Maltesers because I wanted to add a but of texture and fun for my children.
Of course not everyone is a monarchist, however the
jubilee is a day where you meet your neighbours, chat, laugh eat and drink with people
in your community and I think that it's a good thing to celebrate all that is best about being British, including
our food and this cake is perfect for a street party - it's delicious and is really very simple to make and serves 20 ... and if ever there was a time to make the extra afford to make a cake special then if you can use the very best British strawberries, fairtrade vanilla and free range eggs.
Enjoy the celebration!
Serves 20
Prep time 30
Cooking time 30 minutes
Suitable for freezing? Yes before filling
or decorating
For the cake
500g butter or margarine (suitable for
baking)
500g Cardamom Sugar
500g self-raising flour
9 large eggs
For the filling
400g of cream cheese
800ml double cream
8 drops of Ndali vanilla essence
175g icing sugar (sifted)
1 pot of strawberry Jam
To decorate
A large punnet of strawberries
60g of white chocolate buttons
100g of white chocolate maltesers
a large punnet of blueberries
1 Preheat the oven to 180˚C/gas mark 4.
2 Using a food mixer, cream together the
butter or margarine and Sugar Beat well until white and fluffy.
3 Add 3–4 tablespoons of flour to the
mixture, then add the eggs. Adding the flour like this prevents the mixture
from curdling. If it does, just keep adding flour a little at a time, beating
the mixture to ensure it is evenly distributed. Continue mixing and add the
rest of the flour,
4 Divide the mixture between 28cm x 22cm
x 6cm rectangular cake tins and bake in the oven for 30 – 35 minutes, until
firm to the touch. Cool on a wire rack.
5 Once fully cooled you can carefully cut
the slight dome off each cake to make the cake top flat using a large bread
knife. Then make the filling. Whip the cream cheese, cream, vanilla essence and
icing sugar until thick. Spread
the jam on the base of one cake and the cream on the other and sandwich
together using just over half of this mix.
6 Sandwich the two halves together and
spread the rest of the cream on the top of the cake. Using a reference to the Union jack decorate the top in the
shape of the flag, using the strawberries, chocolate and blueberries to
represent each colour.
TIPS Use the leftover sponge, from
cutting off the dome and make summer fruit trifles with the spare blueberries
and strawberries for your party.
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