A Very British Birthday Cake

Hello again! It is my mums birthday soon and I am trying tot think of something nice to make her, this was last years cake! My family are not big fans of overly sweet things so I decided to use fruit to make the union jack (since all the fruit I used were in season it was especially summery as well!) instead of icing! I also blended raspberries into whipped cream for the filling as I thought this would be less sweet than butter icing (It was bloody delicious!).

    Ingredients         

 175g butter

175g caster sugar

3 eggs

1tsp vanilla extract

1tsp baking soda

 175g self raising flour

 Filling/topping

Tub of whipping/double cream

2 punnets of raspberries

 1 punnet of strawberries

 1 punnet of blueberries

Method

First blend together sugar and butter.

Then add the eggs and vanilla extract.

Blend for 2 minutes until the mixture forms bubbles on the surface.

Then sift in the flour and baking soda and fold in with a metal spoon.

 Then separate between 2 cake tins and cook at 180 for 25 mins.

For the filling and topping

Whip the cream till it has thickened then add a punnet of raspberries and blend in.

 Spread the cream between the layers of the cake and on the top

Then using the different berries decorate the top (I attempted to do a union jack!)

I then used a little pack of decorations from waitrose to decorate the cake further!

Enjoy!