Very Thin Layer Cake

Add milk butter and vanilla.

Very thin layer cake.

Bake at 300 for about 15 to 20 minutes until done. All you need is a cake of some kind from scratch or a box mix vanilla or chocolate frosting of your choice a simple vanilla buttercream or cream cheese frosting etc and. Usually it was a 5 layer cake or an 8 layer cake. Mix all ingredients together with mixer.

Using an offset spatula or back of a spoon spread a little over 1 2 cup of the chocolate pastry cream evenly over the cake layer all the way to the sides of the ring. Prepare same cake pans with more cooking spray and rounds of parchment. Using a round cake board or cake lifter transfer the bottom layer of one of the cakes inside the ring. In a large bowl cream together the shortening 1 2 cup butter and 2 cups sugar until light and fluffy.

To assemble cake pour about cup hot icing onto first cake layer just enough to make a very thin layer of icing but not enough to seep over sides of layer. Nigella s strawberry meringue layer cake from nigella summer uses egg yolks to make sponge layers of a cake that are topped with a meringue made from the egg whites the recipe uses 22cm springform tins as this was the size available at the time the recipe is originally from 2002. Pretty and plentiful it s hard not to make a berry dessert or multiple during the hot sunny months. Spread 3 4 cup batter in each pan.

It was simply called a insert however many layers you have layer cake. Starting with the purple layer and working up to red place a layer of cake down cover with frosting add another layer and more frosting until all six layers have been stacked. Put sugar and cocoa in a deep heavy bottomed saucepan and mix well. This berry layer cake is an impressive yet super easy dessert to make i promise.

Repeat with remaining 7 layers. We would suggest using a 21cm tin as this is the size used in the similar lemon meringue cake. Mix sugar and cocoa in large pot. Add the eggs one at a time beating well with each addition then stir in the vanilla.

And that s not because i did it and i m proud i am its because it s the single best layer cake i ve ever had. Better than the ones they serve at bakeries better than the ones my professional friends make sorry friends i still love you and better than any other thing i ve ever tried. Repeat with second set of layers. I m from north carolina and i didn t grow up on this cake by this name.

Although some folks say it was being made in georgia way before alabama claimed it. The very best vanilla layer cake you ll ever have. Summer berries are the best. Pour about 1 to 1 1 2 cups of batter in each pan depending on how thick you want the cake layers then spread out the batter evenly in the pans.

Using a pastry brush lightly brush the surface of the cake layer with the simple syrup soak. Grease and flour 8 inch cake pans. Coat the outside and top of the cake with a thin crumb coat of frosting then refrigerate for 30 minutes to set the crumb coat. Flip cake out of pan onto paper towels or cake rack while still very warm.

Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until cake springs lightly when pressed with a finger.