Savoury Smoked Salmon ‘Cake’

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

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