Stuffed cake for a special occasion
( Torta farcita per occasioni speciali )

Recipe for stuffed cake for a special occasion

Preparation and cooking

• - Prepare sponge cake and let it cool. Links to this recipe and all sweet creams below! The doses are right for this recipe.
• - Prepare pastry cream and let it cool.
• - Prepare chocolate cream and let it cool.
• - Cut your sponge cake into three layers.
• - Soak lightly every layer with rum diluted in milk or water.
  It's difficult to say what is the right quantity of rum.
  It depends on your taste.
  If the cake is made for children, I suggest you to use milk with some drops of fruit syrup.
• - Put the first layer on a work surface and spoon chocolate cream on its surface.
• - Cover with the second layer and now spoon pastry cream on this surface.
• - Cover with the third layer.
• - Transfer your cake on the serving platter.
• - Whip heavy cream.
  Remember to use it very cold and add icing sugar listed among other ingredients.
• - Now spoon your whipped cream on the top and all around as you can see on the photo.

Just before serving

• - Decorate your cake according to your taste and the special occasion you have to celebrate.
• - Chill until serving.

Note

Tips

• - Whip heavy cream and decorate your cake about two hours before serving it. But chill it until serving.
• - Keep your cake leftovers for not more than two days in your fridge.
• - Now I give you some decoration ideas:
  - fresh fruit (strawberries and kiwis or wild berries)
  - chocolate flakes
  - candied cherries
  - various kinds of cookies
  - smarties
  - candied fruit
  - little pieces of canned pineapple.

Menu planning

• - This layer cake is ideal for cold months.
  Don't make it in summer. Too hot for whipped cream and other creams!

- This is a cake ideal for a birthday party or every special event you want to celebrate.

- If you prepare it for a full menu remember it isn't the ideal cake for a fish menu.

Useful links for this recipe

• - Interested in sponge cake how-to? in making pastry cream (custard) at home? and chocolate cream?

Healthy eating

• - A few lines, this time, for my cake. There is little to say. Nutrition facts speak for themselves!
  As you can see its calories are equivalent to a full lunch or dinner.
  But you should reflect about the amount of sugars and fats.
  A surprise for you? look well at its ingredients!
  Even if you choose this stuffed cake for your special occasions, the recommendation is that a cake like that should not be eaten more than two or three times a year.
• - There are no decorations in nutrition facts.
• - Fiber per serving: only 2.4g

Loretta

What's the right wine for " Stuffed cake for a special occasion "?

My husband and I usually match a good dessert wine or sweet sparkling wine (in Italian bollicine - bubbles) with this stuffed cake. Sparkling wine we prefer is Asti spumante (wine of Piedmont).