Dressed-Up White Chocolate Hazelnut Berry Cake
A beautiful Christmas centrepiece doesn't have to mean hours spent in the kitchen. With a few simple finishing touches, a store-bought cake can become something truly special.
You may have spotted this elegant cake in the imagery for our Christmas Treats 100% Linen Tea Towel and we thought it was only fair to share the recipe with you all.
Topped with fresh raspberries, blueberries, roasted hazelnuts and delicate white chocolate balls, this festive cake is finished with a dusting of icing sugar and a little silver shimmer for a touch of Christmas magic. Ready in just 10 minutes, it's an effortlessly elegant dessert for Christmas entertaining, festive gatherings or sharing with loved ones.
Pictured: Christmas Treats 100% Linen Tea Towel
Serves 4-6
Ingredients:
- 1 store-bought White Choc Hazelnut Cake
- 1 punnet raspberries
- 1 punnet blueberries
- ½ cup roasted hazelnuts
- ½–1 cup white chocolate balls
- Icing sugar, for dusting
-
Edible silver shimmer spray
Method:
- Remove the cake from the packaging and place it on a pretty cake stand or serving plate.
- Toast the hazelnuts if they aren’t already roasted. Place them in a dry frying pan for a few minutes until fragrant. Allow to cool completely.
- Pile the berries on top. Start with the raspberries, placing them quite generously through the centre of the cake. Add the blueberries in between. Keep it deliberately abundant rather than arranging them too perfectly.
- Scatter over the whole toasted hazelnuts and white chocolate balls, letting some nestle between the berries.
- Add a few roughly chopped hazelnuts to fill any little gaps and give the top some texture.
- Dust generously with icing sugar from high above the cake so you get a fine snowy coating over the berries, chocolate and hazelnuts.
- Just before serving, give the entire top a very light mist of the edible silver shimmer spray. Hold it well back – you want the berries and chocolate to catch the light rather than turn completely silver.
Pictured: Christmas Treats 100% Linen Tea Towel and Christmas Recipe Book - Christmas Treats
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