Savoury Smoked Salmon ‘Cake’

Name: Savoury Smoked Salmon ‘Cake’
Yield: Serves 10
Ingredients: 50 g unsalted butter, softened, plus more for the tin; 1 cucumber; sea salt; 200-250 g sliced smoked salmon; 80 g unsalted butter, really soft; 400 g cream cheese; handful of finely chopped dill; freshly ground black pepper; squeeze of lemon juice; 250 g self-raising wholemeal flour; 250 g plain flour, plus more to dust; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 1 tsp salt; 1 tbsp black treacle; 50 g caster sugar; 284 ml carton of buttermilk; a little whole milk, if needed

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Birthday Cake Book

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

This is for all those who would prefer a savoury birthday cake. If you have never made bread before, this is the recipe for you; it’s far easier than a cake! The smoked salmon filling is simply a suggestion: fill this with anything you like. This works best if you bake the bread the day before, cool, then store wrapped in foil.

Ingredients

For the Bread

50 g unsalted butter, softened, plus more for the tin
250 g self-raising wholemeal flour

Cake
Pescatarian
Birthday
Baking

Method

To Bake

Preheat the oven to 220°C/fan 210°C/425°F/gas mark 7. Lightly butter a 15cm deep round cake tin. Put the wholemeal flour in a bowl and sift in the plain flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Rub in the butter with your fingers