Today it's Mother's Day. My mum is in Malta but I still decided to make a cake suitable for this day. We went to the cottage with my friends because it was such a beautiful sunny day. 20°C and we are in Finland...and it's only May. How perfect is that:)
The Cake turned out beautiful and so Yummy that my friend said it's the perfect wedding cake. So even if I was inspired by Mother's day and the fact that Rhubarbs are in season you can make this beautiful cake for any day with friends, valentine's day, mothers day birthday or even like my friend said for a wedding.
The Cake (makes enough for 10 persons, however we were only 5 and ended up stuffing the cake in our mouths and have a doggy bag with maybe 2 pieces left)
3 eggs
3 dl sugar
1 dl milk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3 dl baking powder
1 tsp cardamom (can be excluded if you don't like cardamom but for me this makes the yum factor)
1) Heat the oven up to 175°C
2) prepare 1 high baking tray. I used a form 15 cm in diameter and covered the bottom and edges with baking paper to create a high edge or collar. the cake will double up in height.
3) whisk the egg and sugar until white and fluffy.
4) warm up the milk and add to the eggs. (not hot)
5) add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well.
6) bake in the oven for approximately 50 mins
Rhubarb-strawberry jam (makes a whole jam jar which you can use for later)
350 g rhubarb (peeled and diced)
150 g strawberries
2 dl jam sugar (contains pectin to make the jam a bit thicker)
1 dl sugar
1/2 dl water (next time I will try without)
vanilla pod
Put all the ingredients in a pot and heat up until soft. Add the sugar and cook on medium heat until mixture starts to thicken. take off the foam and put into a airtight and well cleaned jar.
Frosting
2 dl Turkish yoghurt
1 dl whipping cream
1-2 tbsp sugar ( I prefer mine not so sweet it's a nice contrast to the other sweet ingredients)
(pink or peach food coloring)
Whip the cream with sugar until thick white peaks form. Add the yoghurt and mix well. Add pink colouring to 2/3 of the mixture.
How to put it all together
Cut the cake into 3 even sized layers. The top is most probably uneven and a bit burnt but it doesn't matter just cut the top of first and then the rest int 3 equal layers approximately 3 cm each.
Spread white uncoloured frosting on 2 of the layers and top it with jam and sliced strawberries.
Put the cake together and spread the pink frosting over the whole cake until evenly covered. I used a mini spatula to make the wavy structure.
Decorate with flowers. Make sure the flowers aren't poisonous and preferably cover them with cling film so none of the flowers actually touch the cake. I even put the flowers into plastic water tubes. This way you won't end up with wilted flowers....however I had so many that my cake ended up cracking.
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