Hi Cake Snobs! Have you missed me? Yes I know sorry I’ve been away for ages. But I will make it up to you. Promise! How? With this:
Why yes, that is a victoria sponge cake, sandwich together with raspberry jam and buttercream, covered in white chocolate buttercream, studded with maltesers and peanut m&m’s, finished with a border of kit kats. Phew! Even saying that makes my mouth water! Let’s take another look…
I made it for the boyfriend’s birthday, and I think he really liked it…
In fact everyone couldn’t wait to gobble it down!
So – I made this cake using the victoria sponge recipe from Lily Vanilli’s book Sweet Tooth – a great recipe!
I used raspberry jam and standard buttercream to make the filling. I then coated it in a batch of white chocolate buttercream:
Ingredients:
- 220g unsalted butter
- 500g icing sugar
- 300g white chocolate
- 2 tablespoon milk
Method:
- Whisk the butter and icing sugar together until smooth
- Melt the white chocolate, and when cool, add to the buttercream
- If mixture is too stiff, add in amount of milk (I used skimmed) until it softens
I did a crumb coating first, leaving the cake in the freezer for 10 mins before applying a second coat of buttercream.
I then lined the outside with 2 finger kit kats (warning – buy 3 packets or you will run out and have to find a supermarket that is open at midnight!)
Then i decorated the top and used a ribbon to finish. And voila! The birthday cake is ready! The whole thing took me an evening to make, about 4-5 hours including cake cooling time!
I suggest you make this for your next party, it was a huge crowd pleaser and it was gone within the day!