Name: Vanilla & White Chocolate Naked Cake with Blueberry Buttercream
Yield: Serves 12–20
Ingredients: pinch of salt; 50 ml water; 1 tsp baking powder; 150 g white chocolate, melted; 300 g butter, softened; 600 g icing sugar; 450 g butter, softened; fresh flowers, to decorate; 7 eggs; seeds of 2 vanilla pods or 4 tsp vanilla extract; 200 g blueberries; seeds of 1 vanilla pod or 2 tsp vanilla extract; 450 g caster sugar; 75 g granulated sugar; 2 tbsp caster sugar; 75 ml water; 2 tbsp milk; 2 tbsp Greek yoghurt; 300 g self-raising flour

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

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