What would Mother's Day be without a Mother's Day cake? Surprise your mom with a homemade cake. We show you a recipe that even non-experienced confectioners can easily manage.
Be honest: Your mother must have thousands of perfumes, chocolates you have given away many times and the flowers unfortunately wither super fast.
This year it's time to really surprise your mom. Make her speechless with our recipe for Mother's Day cake. In the positive sense, of course :)
What first comes to mind when you think of Mother's Day cake? For us, it's definitely fresh fruit. The first local strawberries are already laughing from the fruit shelves.
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If you prefer it chocolaty and love coffee, you should look at this Coffee brownie recipe drop by!
The good thing about a Mother's Day cake with strawberries is that most people enjoy the sweet little fruit.
Finally, you can buy the first domestic strawberries. They even taste like strawberries, unlike imported fruit. If you use delicious fruit, your Mother's Day cake does not have to sweeten so much.
Mixed blueberries, raspberries or other fruit of your choice, you will put a smile on your mom's face.
Besides, with a little imagination strawberries look like hearts. Well, if that is not a hint with the fence post? :)
If you're not a fan of strawberries, you can easily make your Mother's Day cake with raspberries.
If you work with fresh fruit, you should eat the cake no later than one day after making it. But that should not be a problem, right? :)
I bet you've never had such a chocolatey cake!
After dealing with the issue of refined table sugar for a while, I try to avoid it as much as possible. If you're reading this, I'm sure you're thinking the same thing: "25 Reasons Why You Should Stop Eating Sugar."
A great alternative to conventional sugar is Erythritol*. It makes the Mother's Day cake lower in calories and goes perfectly with strawberries. For those who like Erythritol* instead of sugar also saves a few calories.
Small comparison:
- 100 grams of household sugar: 387 calories
- 100 gram Erythritol*: 20 calories
Erythritol* It is a good alternative for people with diabetes because it has no effect on blood sugar levels. It is also much better for your teeth, as it has no caries-promoting properties.
If you like it sweet like we do, but don't want to fall off the wagon because of all the sweetness, we recommend the Mother's Day cake with cottage cheese.
The curd cream
Admittedly: This is what I was most afraid of. Because often the cream is liquid, the next time too solid. And if the cake then has four sticks, it can end in disaster.
That is why the curd cream does not use gelatin. I am not completely comfortable with it and it is a little unpredictable. Especially baking beginners will know this problem.
Therefore, I use cream stiffener as a gelatin substitute in the curd cream. This works wonderfully and has never made me despair :)
By omitting the gelatin, the cream is ready to use immediately and has the perfect consistency.
The optics
This is my first Naked Cake and I was very unsure if it will succeed. Yet it's really quite simple and suitable even for beginners. Instead of striving for perfection, you should even see the cake base here. By the way, you don't need a pastry tool to spread the cream on the sides. I just did it with a large paring knife.
You can put anything on the cake that your mom feels like. Maybe she even has a favorite flower or fruit.
So again briefly summarized. We bake a Mother's Day cake with strawberries and cottage cheese but without sugar. Is your mouth watering already? Well, then let's go :)
Ingredients
For the sponge
- 250 g Soft butter
- 200 g Erythritol
- 5 Eggs
- 80 ml Milk
- Grating of one lime
- 250 g light spelt flour
- 1 Packet Baking powder
- ½ Vanilla bean
For the curd cream without gelatin
- 500 g Curd
- 100 g Erythritol
- 300 ml Cream
- 3 Packet Cream stiffener
- ½ squeezed lime
- 200 g diced strawberries
Anleitung
The sponge with erythritol
- Mix the room-warm butter with sugar and beat until fluffy.
- Add the eggs one by one. Now add the lime zest and the milk.
- Mix flour, baking powder, scraped vanilla bean in a bowl. Fold the flour mixture into the egg-butter mixture with a wooden spoon.
- Divide the dough into two parts. Put the first part of the dough in a greased and floured mold.
- The first part of the Mother's Day cake needs 30-35 minutes at 180° top-bottom heat. To be on the safe side, test with a chopstick. Let the dough cool briefly and remove it from the mold. Repeat the process with the second batch.
- Cut both bottoms in half with a sharp knife - you should now have 4 bottoms.
The curd cream without gelatin
- Mix the curd with erythritol in a bowl until smooth.
- Whip the cream until stiff and slowly add the cream stiffener.
- Fold the cream into the curd.
- Dice the strawberries and add them to the curd with the lime juice. Done! Now you just have to assemble the semi naked cake.
Notes
- 21.4 grams carbohydrates
- 5.5 grams protein
- 8.7 grams fat
Nährwerte
Now comes the part I was most afraid of. Assembling the four-tier cake. But with this youtube video, it works out beautifully. The recipe is not the same, but the principle works quite the same.
If you like, you can use strawberry puree for the decoration. I opted for fresh strawberries this time. If you prefer the strawberry puree version, here's a quick tutorial:
The strawberry puree for Mother's Day cake
- 150 gram strawberries
- 1-2 sheets of gelatine (if you like it firmer, use 2 sheets)
The finishing touch for the strawberry puree:
- Clean and puree the strawberries. If you like, you can add a little honey or Erythritol* add to this.
- Soak the gelatin according to package instructions. Add a small amount of fruit pulp and then mix the gelatin into the whole puree.
- Spread the puree directly on top of the cake and feel free to let it trickle down the sides. Important: Place baking paper underneath or place the cake on a plate.
What can you do on Mother's Day?
The eye eats with you. Fresh fruit, mint, fruit puree, jam, flowers - whatever you like is allowed. If you have a meadow on your doorstep, grab some flowers and decorate your Mother's Day cake with them.
Of course, fruit on a whim always works, too. You can use your mom's favorite fruits. She will be happy for sure.
Our conclusion
It's not that hard to prepare a Mother's Day cake. Especially if you use the ricotta cream that I've introduced to you. Absolutely nothing can go wrong. The cream becomes pleasantly firm and is easy to spread.
The tote tastes refreshingly light and fruity delicious.
Good luck!
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