Summer Berry Cake
- 175 g sugar
- 6 eggs
- 1 orange
- 1 tablespoon orange flower water
- 175 g self-raising flour
- 570 g berries
- 300 g yogurt
- 200 g honey yogurt
- 1 pod vanilla
- 2 tablespoons icing sugar
- 6 tablespoons jam
- Preheat the oven to 180C/Fan 170C/Gas 4.
- Warm the sugar in a heatproof dish in the oven for 10 minutes while the oven is preheating.
- Meanwhile, fill a large bowl with hot water.
- Then tip out the water and dry the bowl.
- Break the eggs into the bowl, add the orange zest and orange flower water and pour in the warm sugar.
- Using an electric hand whisk on a high speed, whisk the mixture for 8 minutes, until it is thick and creamy.
- Gently fold in the flour.
- Pour the mixture into the tin.
- Bake on the centre shelf of the oven for 35 minutes, then remove and leave the cake to cool for 10 minutes before running a knife around the edge and turning on to a cooling rack.
- Peel off the base paper and leave to cool completely.
- For the filling and topping, mix together the yoghurts, the seeds from the vanilla pod and the icing sugar.
- Cut the cake in half horizontally.
- Spread the cut side of the bottom half with the jam followed by half of the yoghurt mixture, and put the other half of the cake on top.
- Spread the remaining yogurt mixture on top of the cake and arrange the berries on top of that.
- You can make the sponge up to 1 day ahead, if kept in an airtight tin.
- Or fill and keep it in a cool place up to 2 hours before serving.
- The unfilled cake can be frozen.
- To make a Union flag design, you'll need nine strawberries and 200g blueberries.
- Halve six of the strawberries and quarter the rest.
- Arrange in the design of the Union flag.
sugar, eggs, orange, orange flower, flour, berries, yogurt, honey yogurt, vanilla, icing sugar
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/summer-berry-cake-469369 (may not work)