“I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.”
Susan Strasberg
So here we go … I have created little somethings to help spread the awareness about Grandparents day, a day to recognise the contribution that the older generation gave to their families and wider society. These little iced cakes may not look perfect but they hold something for everyone! There’s Coffee Cream {my personal favourite}, there’s Chocolate Cream that everyone loves, and there’s Raspberry Cream, reminiscent of the favourite British Victoria sandwich cake.
When I started off I had just a layered coffee cream cake in mind. As I mixed the batter, my mind went towards many little cakes, and then the possibilities exploded in my mind. I was a baker in a hurry! I narrowed down to Coffee Cream, Raspberry Cream and Peaches ‘n’ Cream. 
To enter the competition simply email your photos, recipe and a link to your blog article to blog@interflora.co.uk by Friday 21st September.The winner will receive a luxury arrangement of flowers of their choice plus a Grandparents’ Day Gift Basket which will be delivered to your chosen recipient in time for Grandparents’ Day. 5 runners up will also receive a Grandparents’ Day Gift Basket for their nominated grandparent.
Summary: Dainty little iced cakes lavished with a vanilla buttercream. Each good to serve four, they are made with different flavours – coffee, chocolate & raspberry. The flavour possibilities are endless … and the fun, infinite!
Prep Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1hour 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Sponge
- 3 eggs, room temperature
- 60g {1/2 cup} all purpose flour
- 110g {1/2 cup} raw sugar {or Castor}
- 20g {1/4 cup} almond meal
- 1tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 10gm / 2 tsp Del Monte Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1.5tsp 2% fat mil
- 1/2 tsp vanilla bean powder {or 1 tsp pure vanilla extract}
- Classic Vanilla Buttercream
- 100gm unsalted butter, not too soft
- 40ml low fat cream {Amul}, chilled
- 150gm icing sugar {it was a little oversweet for me, but fine with the kids}
- pinch salt
- 1/2 vanilla bean scraped
- Flavourings
- 1 tsp coffee for the coffee cake
- Dark chocolate ganache, chocolate chips
- Del Monte Raspberry Fruit Filling
Method:
- Sponge
- Line the bottoms and sides of three small 4″ baking tins. Preheat oven to 180C.
- Sift the flour, almond meal, baking powder and salt together. Reserve.
- Mix the olive oil and milk in a small bowl Reserve.
- Beat the eggs and sugar over simmering water on high speed for about 10 minutes until the mixtures becomes thick and mousse like, tripling in quantity {Thermomix, Speed 4, Butterfly insert, 37C, 10 minutes or more}
- Take off water and continue beating for 3-4 minutes until it cools down a bit. {Thermomix, Speed 4, Butterfly insert, 3-4 minutes}
- Gently fold in the flour mixture in 3-4 goes. {Thermomix, Reverse Speed 2}, followed by the olive oil and milk mixture. Blend in gently but uniformly, divide batter between tins and bake for 20-25 minutes until the sponge springs back when touched lightly, ora tester comes out clean.
- Cool on racks for 5 minutes, remove from tins and cool completely.
- Classic Vanilla Buttercream
- Beat the ingredients together until smooth and light. Taste and adjust sugar if required.
- Assembling
- Reserve a little buttercream for piping on top if desired.
- Cut the little cakes horizontally into 2-3 layers each. Sandwich one with the buttercream, add a few chocolate chips within if desired, and top with a chocolate ganache. Pipe some plain buttercream if desired.
- Sandwich the second with some buttercream and raspberry fruit filling, topping that cake with some buttercream and a dollop of filling.
- Whi the remaining buttercream with 1 tsp of coffee and sandwich and frost the little cake with it. Pipe some plain vanilla rosettes if desired and add a chocolate lace border if you have the time and/or inclination!
- Chill until ready to serve.
- ENJOY
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Aw Deeba you put us to shame. ONE of these cakes would have been spectacular and then you do three? Wishing you were my neighbor! Lovely, gorgeous, beautiful, amazing and I’m betting totally DELICIOUS!!
So dainty and cute! Those cakes are fabulous.
Cheers,
Rosa
They look super gorgeous! And your story made me think about my grandma as well 🙂
Wow they looks sooooooooo cute… lovely write up too 🙂 Wish To have a slice in each of those 🙂
I would like to be wise, but maybe not prehistoric…smile. but I would love to celebrate grandmothers day for my own mom and someday for myself. As for these little cakes they are gems. Good luck in the competition.
Cute cute cute!!! Love them! Mini-desserts are so beautiful 😀
Oh THAT spong!!! Need to learn it from you I just can’t get that snowy pillowy texture.
Petite cakes! So wonderful. So lovely. I want iced coffee cake. I want to know why nana laughs at everything? (Mine did too) This mystery needs to be solved
These are so cute! I want to gobble them up right now:) Beautifully written as well.
Love Natasha
Deeba that is so true in the Indian context, none of our grandmas baked cakes and breads as they are not Indian foods though they would have been curious to explore. They cooked the yummies curries and rotis that a non Indian Grandma would surely dream of though.
Oh Deeba!! just an awesome post! I did not have the chance to experience grandparents, but watching my son with my parents beats everything!! My mom sure is the frosting!!
very pretty little cakes….smiles for you and all grandmas.
Fabulous kind of cakes I like it very cute the mini cakes…Thanks a lot for sharing the recipe…I love it..
Terrific looking cakes… I bet they taste amazing.
Will give these recipes a go, but will try using our Arabic coffee as a flavouring!
Arabic Coffee? Now that sounds even better! Mmmm
Whoa! 3 beautiful cakes! Wonderful flavours and combinations.
very pretty cakes..
where did you get the raspberry filling from?
I got it from Del Monte. They do have it in large tins {freezer to thaw properties} for hotels, bakeries etc.
The discussion about grandparents day reminds me of an incident. I passing out of class 5 and the primary section of our school had organized a Grandparents Day for the very first time. I was all involved and asked my grand maa to come the function. She refused, as she didn’t wanna go alone. I was born after my grand father had passed away. I howled and cried till my cousin grand parents agreed to go for me. My grand paa, a retired Railway employee came all suited booted for the function. He was awarded the Best Dressed Grand Father that evening. My eyes still tear when I think of it. At 97 today, he is still going strong. Grand parents are sooo precious.
Love those cakes, to my of ranting here. 🙂
Lovely cakes.
Grandparents are precious! Lost for words to voice the emotions that choke me.
Lovely Post. Gorgeous caes
Those cakes are stunning! I love mini layer cakes. There is something so special about them. I miss my grandparents dearly; they are all unfortunately gone now, but I think of them all the time.
Cute. Lovely Cakes Deeba.
i have a request-can you please post a tutorial on how to level and frost cakes?? have never been able to do it nice and evenly as your cakes-would love to be able to do that!!
Thank you Niki and sorry because I know you have written to me before & I lost your comment after my PC did the royal crash. Will do {asap} and post it for you. Else will do a Google hangout.OK? Will teach you! It’s simple!!
dainty and petite indeed; the recipe has my attention. bookmarking it deeba
Your petite cakes look absolutely delicious. I wish I could eat one right now, okay to be honest, I’ll probably try to eat more than one. The look so good!
Those little cakes are adorable! I almost ate my screen. They look so tasty. 🙂
I have been travelling, to get over my boredum in the train i picked up the latest Femina Issue. Just flip through the pages only to see your beautiful similing pic, in that lovely kitchen of yours. Loved the article, dint know u had a thriving catering business (your multi talented) and totally understood when you said that you have to focus on what you need to make the blog all about!
Coming back to the post, i am running out of adjectives – its simply brilliant!
LOL…thanks aton! You must have been the first one to pick up a copy. I didn’t even know it was out. Thank you! I had a small bake to order business if thats what it’s called. Thriving is an added adjective thanks to Femina! Thank you for all those wonderful words!
Deeba, I am enthralled. Why don’t you write and tell us more of your upbringing, your grandmothers and mother. This image you paint of your grandma in her kitchen is fascinating! I want more stories! And the cakes are brilliant and now I want to make mini individual cakes, too. Yours are so pretty and I want to taste each one. The texture is perfect! Wonderful post, darling! xo
Grandparents are the best and they rock! But OMG Deeba you rock with these lovely cakes. You are such an artist!
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