Fresh Berry Farm's Pink Princess Cake

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Fresh Berry Farm

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dinner party (8-10)

A princess cake is usually quite an ordinary sponge cake, filled with vanilla custard, berries and covered with a layer of green marzipan. This one is a little different, because we use Fresh Berry Farm's Summer Berries and pink marzipan for the ultimate princess - effect. The custard or pudding is

Pink Princess Cake

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp of vanilla
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp apple vinegar
1/4 cup canola oil
1 x 230g tub Fresh Berry Farm's Summer Berries

Method

Pre-heat oven to 175°C
Mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl
To the mixed dry ingredients, add the vinegar, oil and tub of Fresh Berry Farm's Summer Berries. Mix quickly with a spoon, until the batter is fairly even, and pour into a round cake tin, 24 cm in diameter
Bake in 175°C for 30 - 40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Fresh Berry Farm's Summer Berries give the cake a lovely pinkish hue
Let the cake cool down before filling it

The Custard, Filling and Decorating

Ingredients

Custard: 1 1/2 + 1/4 cup oat milk
1/2 tsp vanilla powder
1 tsp sugar
2 tbsp potato starch
Filling and Decorating: 3/4 cup oat cream (for whipping)
150 g pink marzipan (or regular marzipan with pink food colouring)
1/2 cup oat milk for moistening
1 x 230g tub Fresh Berry Farm's Summer Berries

Method

Custard: Mix the vanilla powder and sugar with 1 1/2 of oat milk
Bring the above mixture to the boil in a small cooking pot
Mix the potato starch with the remaining 1/4 cup of oat milk, remove the pot from the heat and pour in the starch-liquid, carefully whisking
Bring the oat milk to the boil again, without mixing. Don't cook, but remove the pot from the heat right when you see the first bubble
Set aside to cool
Filling and Decorating: Whip up the oat cream, and blend it together with the custard. Cut the cake into halves, and moisten it with oat milk. Fill the cake with Fresh Berry Farm's Summer Berries and half of the custard, and finally cover the whole cake with a layer of remaining custard mixture. Roll the marzipan into a flat round layer, bigger than the cake

Tips & Hints

Using a sheet of baking parchment under the marzipan might help, as well as sprinkling the sheet with powdered sugar), lift the marzipan layer carefully on top of the cake, and cut off the extra at the "hem" of the cake, decorate with real roses and sprinkled powdered sugar.