Simple Cake Fillings

Pix — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:14:41 +0000

On the occasions that I don’t feel like baking my own cakes, I always visit a local bakery that I love. One thing that has always impressed me about this place is their huge variety of cake fillings. Fillings make cakes seem fancier, more expensive, and just all around yummier. I realized that I could fancy up my box cake mixes by simply adding some ready-made common fillings from the grocery store. Add some homemade buttercream icing, and you have a gourmet cake that others will think you slaved over.

Think creatively when it comes to cake fillings, and you’ll realize that there are options all over the grocery store. The best place to look is the jam aisle.

Strawberry Jam as Cake Filling

Raspberry and strawberry jams are great (and fancy) cake fillings that are easy as can be to use. More great options are pie fillings. For lemon cakes, I always use ready-made lemon pie filling, and it’s absolutely delicious.

Lemon Pie Filling as Cake Filling

A simple way to create a chocolate filling (or carmel, butterscotch, or strawberry) is to use an ice cream topping like hot fudge or hot caramel.

Hot Fudge as Chocolate Cake Filling

Add some pecan bits to hot caramel, and you have an absolutely amazing filling.

The only thing to remember when adding fillings is to be careful when you spread them between cake layers. Be sure that you don’t spread too closely to the cake edge, or your filling will spill out into your buttercream and cause icing issues. Stack your layers carefully, frost the outsides of your cake, and you have a simple and impressive filled cake.

Stack Second Layer over Filling and then Frost.

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