Vanilla & White Chocolate Naked Cake with Blueberry Buttercream

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    12–20

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Bake

By Lorraine Pascale

Published 2017

  • About

This is a truly beautiful cake, perfect for a real celebration, such as a wedding or engagement. The trick is to create neat blueberry buttercream layers, and to choose flowers that complement the purply blue of the frosting. Make sure that your choice of flowers is safe to use on a cake.

Ingredients

  • 450 g butter, softened
  • 450 g caster sugar
  • 7 eggs

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan/350°F/gas 4) and line the base of the cake tins with baking parchment. Cream together the butter and caster sugar until light and fluffy. You can do this for 5 minutes in a stand mixer or using a hand-held electric whisk. You can also