Vanilla Cream White Chocolate Cake – Your best birthday all over again

While baking is trending, we have a fantastic cake recipe for you to try. And when you’re done, you will be taking loads of photos for social media. The Vanilla Cream White Chocolate Cake recipe will make you feel like it’s your best birthday all over again. And yes, it will also work as a birthday cake too and your family and friends will think you got it from a bakery.

The homemade cream filling uses fresh vanilla pod. It is a very unique, yet tasty alternative to using vanilla essence. The cake is light and fluffy, the filling is creamy and the topping is a sweet delight. You can even put your own spin on it with using other fruits and decorations.

This Vanilla Cream White Chocolate Cake is absolutely worth the time and effort. Every bite as moist and creamy as the next.

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Vanilla Cream White Chocolate Cake

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Recipe by Melissa Jacobs Course: DessertCuisine: GlobalDifficulty: Easy

Servings

8

servings

Prep time

40

minutes

Cooking time

40

minutes

Total time

1

hour 

20

minutes

Ingredients

• CAKE

• 1 cup sugar

• 4 whole eggs

• 1 tsp vanilla essence

• 2 cups flour

• 2 tsp baking powder

• 100 ml oil

• salt

• FILLING

• 1 whole egg

• 2 egg yolks

• ½ cup sugar

• ¼ cup maizena (corn meal)

• 2 cups milk

• 1 vanilla pod (remove seeds)

• 250 ml fresh whipped cream

• TOPPING

• cherries

• 1 cup broken white chocolate

Method

• CAKE
• Mix to eggs and sugar till creamy. Add the vanilla.
• Sift the dry ingredients together and add to the mixture.
• Heat the milk and oil. Add to the mixture.
• Divide the mixture evenly into two greased cake tins.
• Bake at preheated oven, 180 degrees, for 20 minutes.
• Let cool. Using a piece of thread, cut the cakes in half.
• FILLING & TOPPING
• ix the eggs, sugar and maizena till creamy. In a saucepan, heat the milk and vanilla pod to a medium heat. Set aside to cool.
• When cooled, mix the cream in, gently.
• Fill each layer with the cream mixture, stacking the four layers.
• Decorate with cherries and white chocolate chips.

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