When I read on the Daring Bakers blog that Morven of Food Art and Random Thoughts chose the Perfect Party Cake recipe from Dorie Greenspan’s book ‘Baking: from my Home to Yours’ I was delighted! I enjoy baking cakes and could bake this cake for a few celebrations scheduled in the month of March.
Well, one celebration was rescheduled for April. Didn’t have time to make it for Easter and it finally dawned on me yesterday that the posting date was TODAY!! Saturday is quite the busy day at our house and we had guests arriving early afternoon to cook supper with us so there wasn’t a minute to spare to bake this lovely cake! If I would have planned it properly, I could have made the cake for dessert.So today the pressure was on! Fortunately I had most of the ingredients on hand – even the Swans Down cake flour which I have used for other baking.
My cakes didn’t seem to rise as much I thought they would although I used all the right ingredients. There definitely was not any time to try again. Luck was on my side with the butter cream. No curdling – it mixed well and was delicious (although a bit too sweet for me).
When I sliced each cake in half – let’s say the layers could have been a little more even but I blame the ‘pressure’ of completing the cake in time to post.
I filled each layer with strawberry jam and a thin coating of butter cream icing otherwise I would have not had enough to frost the outside and top of the cake.
Since my family is not a fan of coconut, I decorated the cake with toasted sliced almonds and fresh fruit.
I was going dust it with icing sugar but I thought the cake would be sweet enough.
I didn’t slice it yet as I am serving this cake for dessert tonight to celebrate that I actually completed this month Daring Baker’s challenge. Let’s hope it was successful!
For more information on the recipe please visit Food Art and Random Thoughts. To view the different versions of the Celebration Cake baked by the Daring Bakers visit the Daring Bakers blogroll.
Thank you Morven for choosing this recipe. I bought the book!
It’s just beautiful, Liliana! All that gorgeous fruit on top is making my mouth water!
Wow, that’s a lot of delicious fruit…yummy. Cake looks gr8!
Absolutely amazing! Such a pretty presentation, I love all the almonds around it!
i’m sure it came out tasting delish! it’s so pretty with the almonds and fresh fruit.
What a beautiful looking cake! I love almonds and strawberries together.
That is a really pretty fruit display on top, you did a good job with that!
Oh, nice looking cake!
I love the fruit arrangement on top of the cake. I’m ready to dive in!
Your cake just looks soooo amazing!! Congratulations… geesh that fruit is just soo inviting and the almonds.. oh gosh I am drooling.. Congratulations again!
Looks lovely!
Great job!! I love the almonds, this cake is beautiful!!!!
Beautiful! Your arrangement of the berries is fantastic!
Wow! That looks so beautiful and yummy! 🙂
Your cake is so wonderful. I like the decoration you choose. Thanks for the comment to my post.
Ooooohhhhhhh! This looks so yummy! I love all the fruit on top. Great job!
Natalie @ Gluten A Go Go
such a beautiful cake!