Currently baking out of Sky High, Irresistible Triple-Layer Cakes by Alisa Huntsman and Peter Wynn
I almost got out of my bad-cake-rut with this recipe, but not quite. The fault, though, is my own.
This recipe is a lemon cake, marbled and filled with blueberry preserves and finished off with a lemon buttercream frosting. I cheated a bit and used a different frosting. I just couldn’t bring myself to make a buttercream in this heat, so instead, I mixed some lemon curd with whipped cream and frosted the cake with that.
The problem I had was that the cakes were a little dry. I over baked the cakes, then left them sitting out most of the day due to a series of unexpected softball games. I think if I had taken a little more care of the cakes, this cake would have turned out really nicely. As it was, though, the cake was pretty good. I certainly didn’t have any difficulty eating a slice.
The cake had a nice lemon flavor. I thought the blueberries got a little lost (as did my marbling), but simply using more of the preserves in the filling would fix that. I was really happy with the frosting and would probably use it instead of the original buttercream.
Hi. I made this cake too. I found it on another website. I used the original frosting and my husband and I both hated, hated it. Wish I would of substituted the frosting like you did. My swirls got lost as well:( Yours looks great even a year later.
Okay seriously can you come visit and make this for me. It looks divine & really want to make it, but it simply won’t look at pretty as yours. Mine never do!
Yep, the marbling is done with some of the blueberry preserves. If you look closely at the bottom of each cake layer, you can sorta, kinda see the marbling. The lemon curd whipping cream would work great as a filling. I’d still keep the blueberry preserves, though and maybe add a layer of the whipped cream on top of those preserves. You really need to live closer.
OH! You made another lemon cake. I gotta get a real estate agent! This looks so yummy. Is the marbling blueberries too? I bet the lemon curd and whipped cream would make a great filling too! Less blueberries, more lemon! LOL