JUNE
STRAWBERRY AND MASCARPONE CAKE
A soft and fluffy vanilla cake, layered with fruity strawberry compote and a whipped mascarpone fresh cream filling. Wrapped in a delicious ‘strawberry milk shake’ frosting bursting with berry flavour, this cake is summer in a mouthful!
I was always so jealous as a child of my friends who had summer birthdays. They just seemed to have the best parties, helped in no small part by the fact that they were held outdoors. The days in June are longer and warmer, the advent of the sun brings a sense of fun and freedom and the general mood is broadly speaking on the up.
June is the season of summer solstice, tennis on the lawn and strawberries and cream. So June’s birthday cake, unquestionably had to celebrate the fruit of the season – the delightful strawberry. In this cake I have employed strawberries in various forms to ensure maximum (yet natural) flavour. Fresh strawberries, grown organically and fed on an abundance of sunshine are unquestionably sweet and fragrant, but to mitigate
