We’re celebrating the tenth birthday of The Simple Things this month, with this delicious blackberry and white chocolate sandwich cake, designed, made and photographed by Catherine Frawley. Why had we never thought of the winning combination of blackberry and white chocolate before, we ask ourselves?
While we were blowing out our candles, we got to thinking that there must be lots more winning combinations and things we had not previously considered sandwiching in a sandwich cake! A classic Victoria Sponge with raspberry jam and cream is always a winner, but the sky really is the limit here. We’ve put together a few ideas for sandwich cake fillings, as well as some suggestions on cake flavours to pair the fillings with. Pass the cake forks round, please!
· Passion fruit curd – goes well with orange cake
· Toasted marshmallows (or marshmallow spread in a jar) – goes well with chocolate cake
· Whole Maltesers and buttercream – goes well with salted caramel cake
· Cookie dough – goes well with chocolate chip cake
· Eton mess (cream, crushed meringue and chopped strawberries) – goes well with a vanilla sponge
· Blueberry curd – goes well with lemon cake
· Coffee butter cream (mix some espresso powder into the cream – goes well with walnut cake
· Marmalade – Goes well with white chocolate cake
Happy baking! And if you’d like to cook Catherine’s cake, pictured here, you can find it in our October issue on page 22.
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