You can''t go wrong with a combination of blueberries and vanilla. The cake consists of cocoa sponge, vanilla cremeux, blueberry jelly and airy blueberry cream, which hides the BAM blueberry topping, which has a rich fruity flavour and excellent texture - perfect for making creams and fillings. If you don''t have two 16 cm diameter rings, just reverse the order of the components - bake the sponge first, then prepare the vanilla cremeux and the blueberry filling.
Whipping the cream is a very important step in desserts containing cream fillings. The sweet cream plays a major role in the texture, taste and appearance of the final product. Always choose full-fat sweet cream for whipping, which must be well chilled before use. When preparing mousses and creams, it should never be whipped stiffly unless the recipe calls for it. Whip the cream to soft peaks, which means medium firm. This would be so much that you can see the whisk marks in the cream, and if you catch it with the whisk, it produces soft peaks which hang down.
The recipe is part of the BAM recipe book - Modern Desserts. The recipe is suitable for 8 pieces of cake, prepared in round cake tins 18 cm and 16 cm in diameter.
You can also sprinkle the following on top of or instead of the blueberry cake: