Triple Berry Layer Cake

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So, I made up this cake (with the help of a previous vanilla cake recipe). It’s awesome. If you like berries, you will love this cake. It could be improved in some ways, I’m sure, but as is, it’s a solid 9.5. The second picture gives you a better view of how I decorated the top. Anyway, here you go:

Vanilla Cake (I used the one from cookingclassy.com I blogged last spring)
Vanilla Cake
  • 3 cups (370g) cake flour I measured this by weight and just put 1/3 cup of cornstarch in the bowl and then dumped flour in until it reached the right number of grams
  • 1 Tbsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup (8 oz) unsalted butter, softened next time I might use 25% OIL 
  • 1 3/4 cup (390g) granulated sugar I only did 1 1/3 cups and it was plenty sweet, you could likely decrease to 1 1/4 without any problems
  • 3 large eggs
  • 2 large egg yolks
  • 1 1/4 cups milk (anything but skim) I used 2%
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract I increased this to 1 Tbs.
http://www.cookingclassy.com/fresh-strawberry-cake/
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time, and then vanilla. Sift dry and alternate in 4ths with milk, in 3rds. Put in 3 9-inch cake pans and bake at 350 for about 25 minutes.

Triple Berry Filling

Generous 3 cup of fresh berries, it might have been closer to 4 cups (I did 1/3 blackberries, 1/3 raspberries, 1/3 blueberries)
shake salt
1/4 cup sugar
2 Tbs. lemon juice
1 Tbs. cornstarch

So, you put the berries, salt, and sugar in a wide pan and cook them on medium until they break down and release all their juices. This takes like 8 minutes or so. Then, stir in the cornstarch to the lemon juice and add it to the berries. Boil for 1 minute. Blend. Strain. Chill. Also, if you like more lemon flavor, add zest.

Vanilla Mousse

8 oz. cream cheese
shake salt
2 tsp. vanilla
1/3-1/2 cup powdered sugar

Beat this until smooth, then stream in 2 1/2 cups unwhipped cream. Don’t overbeat. You could also add some triple berry filling if you wanted to give it a berry flavor.

You need a lot of fresh berries for decorating, just FYI

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