Strawberry Shortcake
Help with a strawberry shortcake wedding cake?
I am a journeyman baker and I have had a request to make a traditional sweet strawberry shortcake for a wedding cake. They want icing instead of whip cream to base ice the cake, and they want probably 3 tiers. I'm looking for any suggestions for recipes for the cake or a filling made with real strawberries. Any other advice to make this easier and look good and taste great would help!
And they just want it plain. It is going to be decorated with artificial flowers.
They want me to use a basic sweet white cake
Been decorating for 30+ years in California, where the berries are excellent! And I actually had a strawberry cake for my own wedding.
You can do it a couple of different ways. The cake you're planning is fine. If you're in Cali, Ariz or New Mex, go to Smart & Final and get "Pastry Pride". It's a non-dairy whipped icing. All you do is whip it.
(Sounds like a song, huh?) You can frost with it, pipe it and use it for flowers. It aerates quickly though, so use it immediately. Once it's on the cake it's fine.
If you're not in one of those states, then make a swiss meringue. It's sturdy enough to hold up to decorating, but light enough to compliment the fresh berries and not compete for the sweetness.
For my cake, it was filled with bavarian cream and had the fresh sliced berried on top. Then iced around the sides and bordered with the whipped cream. We had five tiers, but that many guests. So you can scale that down to what you need.
If they don't want berries showing, then put a layer of whatever icing you choose afterall, on each layer and lay the sliced berries on that. The thin layer of icing will prevent the berries from seeping juice into the cake and making it soggy. Don't use preserves or it will be too sweet with an artificial taste.
In Calif, fresh strawberries are the number one filling choice of my clients. Especially April thru June!
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