Easy to make, this summery treat may be the nicest cake I’ve ever had. And I don’t say that lightly: I’ve eaten A LOT of cake in my time 🙂
This week I’m continuing to fulfill my promise to make all the cakes which feature in my first novel, Art and Soul. If you like reading uplifting contemporary romance, you can get your own copy on Amazon.
One of the characters, Ronnie, owns a cake shop, and this raspberry ripple cake is just one of the delicious offerings her lucky customers can enjoy.
You can see the other cakes which feature in Art and Soul, including chocolate fudge and red velvet, here.
Ingredients:
- 250g / 8.8 oz butter or margarine
- 250g / 8.8 oz caster sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 250g / 8.8. oz self-raising flour
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 175g / 6.2 oz fresh raspberries
Method:
- Make your raspberry purée. I pushed the raspberries through a sieve using the back of a spoon, letting the juice drip into a bowl below, but you could whiz the raspberries in a blender and then sieve afterwards. Set to one side.
- Now make your sponge cakes. Grease and line two 8-inch (20 cm), round cake tins. Pre-heat the oven to 160 degrees C (140 degrees C fan), 320 degrees F or Gas Mark 3.
- Cream together the butter and sugar. Add the eggs, beating your mixture after adding each egg. Then add the vanilla extract and flour and stir until you have a smooth mixture.
- Divide your mixture in two and spoon into the cake tins. Using the back of a spoon, make a number of wells in each tin but don’t go right to the bottom of the tin. Spoon your raspberry purée into these wells, as shown in the photos below. BUT make sure you keep 2 tablespoonfuls of purée to flavour the buttercream filling later.
- Then use a knife or skewer to swirl the purée through the mixture. Like this:
- Bake your cakes for about 30 minutes or until a knife or skewer inserted into the middle of a cake comes out clean.
- Leave to cool in the tins before turning out onto a wire rack to finish cooling.
For the filling I made a standard buttercream, making far too much as usual. 75 g (2.6 oz) of butter/marg and 150g (5.3 oz) icing sugar will be more than enough. Add two tablespoons of raspberry purée to your buttercream. If adding the liquid makes the buttercream too sloppy, add some extra icing sugar or put in the fridge to harden up.
You could cover your cakes with the buttercream if you want, but I think the top is too pretty to hide. I piped the buttercream between the laters.
Absolutely delicious! Particularly only a couple of hours after baking 🙂
Oh. My. Word. My mouth is actually watering!
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Thanks! It is marvellous. And so easy. I think I might prefer this to chocolate cake… Which I never thought I’d say in a million years!
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Wow that is an amazing commendation! I will really have to try it now!!xx
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That looks so good!
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Thanks – it’s lovely! It was still good a few days after baking, but it was at its best just a few hours after I finished it.
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My god that looks good.
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I surprised myself with how delicious it is! I’ll be making it again soon while raspberries are still in season 🙂
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This looks amazing!!! X
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Thank you! The wonderful smell in the kitchen after you make it is worth the effort alone 🙂 And then you get to eat it!
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looks bloody yummy 🙂 you are so clever .. i can’t cook or bake for toffee
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Thank you! It was surprisingly easy. Making the puree was a bit of a faff (next time I’m putting the berries in the blender!), but the rest was straightforward and the results astonished me 🙂
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This looks beautiful! Delicious of course but it’s so pretty I would hesitate to eat it… Only for a split second of course.
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Thank you. I waited long enough to take the photos and that was it!
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This looks delicious. My mum is asking me what cake I’d like for my birthday (yes I’m going to be 32, yes my mum still makes me a cake!)…I think I’ll send her this recipe! xx
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It’s really easy too and SO yummy 🙂
I’m 34 and if my mum would still make me a cake, I’d take it! 🙂
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Just made this cake for my sister’s birthday and it was delicious and much-appreciated!
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Yay! I’m delighted it turned out well and everyone liked it 🙂 I hope your sister had a lovely birthday.
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