08/06/2024
🌍🍰 Around The World in 80 Cakes - Swedish Midsommartårta aka Midsummer Strawberry Cake 🍰🌍
And just like that folks, we are back in business with cake number 36, this time in Sweden with a little berry laden number.
It’s safe to say this video is sugar fuelled chaos and I apologise for how verbal vomitty it is. I blame the mild hysteria from baking in what is essentially a sauna. The past week has proven yet again, that I am indeed not a Summer (in the uk) girly 🙅🏽♀️
The cake is made up of 3 layers of soft, sumptuous, moist sponge, topped with fresh whipped cream, strawberries and occasionally layers of pastry cream - which obv, I went for cause I’m bougie 💅🏽
If you fancy giving this cake a go (even if you don’t make the whole shebang, individually each component is lovely), you will need:
• Strawberry Filling
650 g Strawberries, fresh or frozen
65 g Caster Sugar
Pinch of Salt
• Sponges
275 g Baking Marg/Unsalted Butter, room temp
330 g Caster Sugar
5 Large Eggs
300 g ‘00’/Plain/AP Flour, sifted
70 g Potato Starch, sifted
15 g / 3.5 tsp Baking Powder, sifted
Pinch of Salt
1 tsp Vanilla Bean Paste
2 tsp Almond Extract
125 ml Buttermilk, room temp
• Soaking Syrup, optional
100 ml Water
1 tsp Almond Extract
80 g Caster Sugar
• Pastry Cream Filling
250 ml Whole Milk
1 tsp Vanilla Bean Paste
3 Egg Yolks
50 g Caster Sugar
10 g Cornflour, sifted
10 g Plain Flour, sifted
• Whipped Cream
450 ml Double/Whipping Cream
40 g Icing Sugar
1tsp Vanilla Bean Paste
• To Finish
Fresh Strawberries
You can find the method in the pinned comments below 👇🏽 OR you can get a downloadable PDF copy in my newsletter going out this week (likely by eod tomorrow!).
Any questions, let me know but if there’s any cakes that haven’t featured yet that you think NEEDS to be on this list, I wanna know!
