raspberries

I made the cathedral shaped cake for my best friend’s birthday.
I wanted to do something different, and I’m not a cake-design’s fan. So decorated cakes were not an option.
I had this fantastic cake mould by Silikomart which is an italian factory specialized in silicone moulds, but you can easily find something similar by Nordic ware (even if in aluminun or some kind of metal).
It has the shape of a cathedral, really weird shape for a cake, but i like weird stuff!
So i did this cake, with a quite normal buttery base ( i already tried this before to know if it fitted with the mould), the added the mixed berries to the dough.
And a little magic happened…also helped by luck.
The chance wanted that the mixed berries were so sour that i had to cut them in the middle and add some sugar. It was this little trick that turned the cake into something fantastic and spectacular.
The berries thanks to gravity force did sink in the dough and when i turned the cake upside down they were shining on the surface, in all their splendour.
The sugar I added did candy them, so they were lucid, bright and full of colours.
The cathedral cake looked like a multicolor painting. I did whisper “ohhhhh” when I pulled it out the mould.