Strawberry Cream Cake
Dorie calls this a Berry Surprise Cake. I call it a Strawberry Cream Cake with Raspberry Coulis. The cake is a semi-fragile sponge cake with sweetened cream cheese filling, fresh strawberries, decorated with real whipped cream and served in a puddle of raspberry coulis. It was as beautiful as it was delicious!
Tuesdays With Dorie's - BIG NEWS!
I am now an official Tuesdays With Dorie Volunteer! Yeah, it's not a paid gig, but I'm enjoying writing up and posting the OSI (Our Secret Ingredients) meme for the week. Another gal, Tanya from Chocolatechic is gonna help. I'll take one month, she'll take the next and so on and so forth. This is what the job entails: We send out the OSI meme questions about a month ahead of time. The host/hostess for that week's recipe fills out his/her meme answers and sends them back to us. We take all that info, put it together in a real perty way, add photos that go along with their favorites, and post it to the Tuesdays With Dorie's site.
Check out the TWD site here to see what I've been doing with it! Then, it goes live so everyone can get an up-close-and-personal peek into the lives of all the bloggers. Everyone will eventually be in the spotlight for their 15 minutes of fame. However, if you're lucky number 386, you may have to wait around, oh, 7 (seven) years to choose your recipe and get your meme answers to me!
Berry Surprise Cake
Mary Ann of Meet Me in the Kitchen chose Berry Surprise Cake for her recipe of the week. You can find the recipe on pages 273-275 of Dorie Greenspan's book, Baking: From My Home To Yours. If you're one of the only people on the planet that doesn't yet have Dorie's book, you can skip on over to Mary Ann's blog for the recipe.
I really enjoyed this recipe, everyone else did too! The recipe calls for fresh raspberries. I didn't use fresh raspberries. There wasn't there any at the supermarket, and even if there were, the price would have been ridiculous since this is NOT raspberry season here in Rhode Island! Strawberries on the other hand, were reasonably priced, so I bought a box of them instead. I was able to buy frozen raspberries and pureed them with sugar for a raspberry coulis.
Sponge Cake
The cake itself is like a sponge cake. Very delicate with whipped egg whites and cream. Everything has to be folded in just so without deflating the egg whites. My cake didn't come out as high as I would have liked. Not sure what happened there. So, I had to improvise a bit and layer the fresh strawberries inside the cake rather than hollowing out a pocket for the hidden berries. It worked just fine.I made the cream cheese filling and used brandy in the recipe, and that was ultra-yummy too! Then, I layered it all together, and decorated the whole thing with fresh whipped cream. I had some perfect strawberries left over, so I cut them in half and decoated the cake with them.
Raspberry Coulis
I made the raspberry coulis by thawing out the frozen berries, adding some sugar to the berries and letting them sit fr a while. Then, I whipped it up with the immersion blender until the sugar dissolved and the puree was silky smooth. I refrigerated the cake for a about 4 hours before slicing just to make sure it held together without sliding. It cut real nice, looked very pretty inside and out, especially with the raspberry sauce!
Be sure to check out all the other Berry Surprise Cakes on the Tuesdays With Dorie blogroll!
This cake looks absolutely heavenly!
What a great job you did.
Beautiful photos!
Posted by: Liliana | January 27, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Absolutely gorgeous, as usual!
Posted by: Cindy | January 27, 2009 at 12:18 PM
congratulations on the tuesday with dorie position! and you did a great job on the cake!
Posted by: Pearl | January 27, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Hey, that's great about your new gig with Dorie!
The cake is beautiful! I love looking at your pictures, since I'm not a baker; they always make me smile.
Posted by: betty | January 27, 2009 at 01:23 PM
Donna, your Strawberry Cream Cake looks delicious. I can just taste the sweetness oozing out of my computer screen.
I don't want you to think i'm licking my computer screen or anything like that lol. It just good amazing lol.
Look like a perfect dessert!
Posted by: chuck | January 27, 2009 at 01:29 PM
Your cake is gorgeous. It looks very delicious. Have fun with your new gig!
Posted by: pinkstripes | January 27, 2009 at 04:26 PM
it looks so pretty and delicious! :)
Posted by: kim | January 27, 2009 at 05:34 PM
Looks sooooooo delicious! I love it! And thanks for being a TWD volunteer!
Posted by: food librarian | January 27, 2009 at 11:58 PM
This is such a great looking cake! Can you really go wrong with strawberries and cream!!!??? Yum! Great photo!
Posted by: finsmom | February 15, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Oh! I love strawberry cakes, thanks for posting about this. I enjoyed reading it.
-krisha-
Posted by: philippine cakes | May 05, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Wow! my kids love strawberry cakes so much and this looks so very delicious,thank you so much for sharing!
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Posted by: Goldilocks Bakery | September 15, 2009 at 10:49 PM