Fresh Fruit Cake

Fresh fruit cake topped with strawberries, kiwi, berries, and whipped cream.

This recent fruit cake is bursting with candy, juicy seasonal fruit. It’s made with fluffy whipped cream, layers of sentimental Genoise cake, and any fruit of your selection! This cake is rather like the gorgeous Asian fruit desserts bought in Korean, Chinese, and Japanese bakeries.

Fresh fruit cake topped with strawberries, kiwi, berries, and whipped cream.

Fresh fruit cake showcases colourful, recent fruit slices superbly positioned atop fluffy whipped cream enveloping tender layers of sponge cake.

It’s the right cake to focus on candy, seasonal fruit and is nice for birthdays, Easter, Christmas, and some other event!

This recent fruit cake is well-liked in Asian international locations and is often bought in Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese bakeries everywhere in the world. If you go to any Korean or Taiwanese bakery like Tous Les Jours, Paris Baguette, or 85 levels, you will see superbly adorned recent fruit desserts showcasing superb adorning strategies.

For this straightforward residence cook dinner model, I saved the adorning easy and let the colourful, colourful fruit be the principle function of the cake.

Ingredients

  • Eggs – Use giant, room-temperature eggs. Set them out on the counter half-hour earlier than utilizing them.
  • Cake flour – Cake flour has much less gluten and protein which leads to a fluffy, lighter sponge cake.
  • Sugar – Use granulated, white sugar.
  • Butter – Butter offers this cake richness and taste.
  • Vanilla – Use high quality vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste.

How to Make Fresh Fruit Cake

  1. Place the eggs, sugar, salt, and vanilla in a heat-proof bowl. Place this inside a bigger bowl that is been crammed with scorching water.
  2. Beat on excessive till the eggs get foamy and begin to enhance in quantity.
  3. When the eggs turn into pale yellow and fluffy, verify to see if the sugar is totally dissolved and the temperature is heat.
  4. When the amount has elevated by no less than 3 occasions, carry the whisk and let the combination movement down like ribbons. If the ribbons seem for 3 to 4 seconds, it is reached the ribbon stage.
  1. and 6. Sift within the flour in three elements and fold after every time.
  1. Before including the melted butter, combine in about 3 heaping tablespoons of batter. This will assist incorporate the butter into the batter.
  2. Gently add the butter combination and fold in very gently, taking care to not deflate the batter.
  1. and 10. When you now not see melted butter, pour the batter right into a cake pan lined with parchment paper. Bake the cake at 350 levels F till a toothpick inserted within the heart comes out clear.

Let it relaxation on a cooling rack, and slice the cake into layers as soon as utterly cooled.

Brush the underside cake layer with cake syrup, then apply a skinny layer of whipped cream. Next, high with strawberry slices and apply one other skinny layer of whipped cream. Top with the subsequent cake layer and repeat these steps.

Decorate the perimeters and high of the cake with extra whipped cream. Then add the recent fruit topping. Serve and luxuriate in!

Recipe Tips

  • Dry the fruit very properly earlier than filling and topping the cake. This will assist it last more.
  • When including butter, it’s totally straightforward to deflate the batter. Make certain the melted butter and batter are nonetheless heat. Cold temperatures will solidify the butter and deflate the batter. Fold very gently at this stage till simply mixed.Avoid overfilling the layers. It could cause the cake to break down if too heavy.
  • Cake syrup – To maintain the cake moist and delicate, brush the cake syrup on every cake layer. This method is utilized by many business bakeries and pastry cooks, together with in my family.
  • Store recent fruit cake within the fridge for as much as two days for the most effective taste.

Fresh Fruit Cake

This recent fruit cake is bursting with candy, juicy seasonal fruit. It’s made with fluffy whipped cream, layers of sentimental sponge cake, and any fruit of your selection! This cake is rather like the gorgeous Asian fruit desserts bought in Korean, Chinese, and Japanese bakeries.

  • Prep Time 15 minutes
  • Cook Time 30 minutes
  • Total Time 45 minutes

Instructions

For the Cake:

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line the underside and sides of the cake pan with parchment paper.
  • Whip Eggs: In a big heat-proof bowl, add the eggs, sugar, vanilla, and salt. Place this bowl inside a bigger bowl that is been crammed with scorching water (bain-marie). Using a hand mixer, beat the eggs on excessive velocity till tender, fluffy, and pale yellow ribbons kind, about 8 to 10 minutes. Replace the new water midway by way of because it cools down. See Note 1.

    ⅔ cup sugar, 4 eggs, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract, ¼ teaspoon salt

  • Add Flour: Sift within the flour in three elements, gently folding after every time.

    1 cup cake flour

  • Add Butter: To assist incorporate the butter, combine 3 heaping spoonfuls of the batter into the warmed, melted butter. Next, gently fold the butter combination into the batter. See Note 2.

    1 ¾ tablespoon butter

  • Bake: Pour the batter into your cake pan and bake at 350°F till a toothpick inserted within the heart comes out clear. For one 9-inch spherical pan, about 25 minutes. For two 6-inch spherical pans, about 18 minutes.
  • Cool: Remove all parchment paper and permit it to chill utterly on a cooling rack.

For the Whipped Cream:

  • Using a whisk attachment, beat the heavy whipping cream and powdered sugar collectively till mild and fluffy.

    2 cups heavy whipping cream, 6 to eight tablespoons powdered sugar

Assemble:

  • Cake syrup: Make cake syrup by dissolving the sugar in scorching water. Set apart.

    3 tablespoons sugar, ⅓ cup scorching water

  • Fill: Slice the cake into even layers utilizing a leveler. Working with the underside cake layer, brush on a layer of cake syrup, then add a skinny layer of whipped cream. Top with sliced fruit, being cautious to not overfill. Then high with one other skinny layer of whipped cream. Repeat these steps for the subsequent cake layer. See Notes 3 and 4.

    3 cups recent fruit

  • Decorate: Decorate the highest layer with extra fruit and whipped cream. Serve and luxuriate in!

✎ Recipe Notes

Makes one 9-inch or two 6-inch desserts (the photograph proven is of a 6-inch cake).
I extremely advocate utilizing a kitchen scale and the metric measurements supplied for the most effective outcomes. Click on “Metric” beneath the substances listing to entry gram measurements.

  1. Whipping eggs: It is important the egg combination is heat to the contact and the sugar is utterly dissolved for this step, thus requiring a bain-marie. See step-by-step photographs within the submit for the correct ribbon stage. If you are in search of a sponge cake that does not require a bain-marie, attempt my Easy Sponge Cake recipe. 
  2. When including butter, it’s totally straightforward to deflate the batter. Make certain the melted butter and batter are nonetheless heat. Cold temperatures will solidify the butter and deflate the batter. Fold very gently at this stage till simply mixed.
  3. Cake layers: I like to recommend utilizing not more than 3 layers per cake as it could possibly simply collapse if too tall. If utilizing a 9-inch cake, use 3 layers. If utilizing two 6-inch desserts, create two 2-layer desserts or one 3-layer cake.
  4. Overfilling the cake with an excessive amount of fruit or whipped cream could cause it to break down. Be conservative when inserting the fruit and be certain they’re sliced the identical thickness to have a degree layer. I like to recommend utilizing cake dowels for additional assist.
  5. Storage: Store adorned and crammed cake within the fridge for as much as 2 days.

Nutrition

Calories: 437kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 27g | Saturated Fat: 16g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 156mg | Sodium: 141mg | Potassium: 125mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 32g | Vitamin A: 1088IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 58mg | Iron: 1mg 

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