Sour Cream and Berry Cake

Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 8-10
Ingredients
- 430 g Dairy Farmers Sour Cream
- 1 ¼ cups caster sugar
- 1 2/3 cups self raising flour
- 1 cup desiccated coconut
- 4 eggs
- ¼ cup icing sugar
- ½ cup berry jam
- mixed fresh berries
- 180 g butter - extra softened
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C
- Lightly brush two x 20cm shallow round cake pans with melted butter and line bases with non-stick baking paper.
- Combine in a bowl the butter and caster sugar. Beat with electric beaters until mixture is pale and creamy.
- Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.
- Stir and fold the flour and 250g sour cream alternatively into the butter mix using a metal spoon. Then add the coconut.
- Divide mixture evenly into the two pans and smooth out the surfaces.
- Bake together on the middle shelf of the oven for 20-30 minutes or until golden and when tested by inserting a skewer into the cakes the skewer comes out clean.
- Stand cakes in pans for 5 minutes before turning out onto wire racks remove baking paper then turn cakes upright to cool completely.
- Make filling by combining 180g sour cream and icing sugar in a bowl.
- To assemble cakes trim the top of the bottom cake if necessary to enable the cakes to sit together.
- Spread the bottom cake with jam and top with cream mixture place top cake into position.
- Finish cake with a dusting of icing sugar and fresh mixed berries.
Suggestion
Shield cakes with a piece of foil placed lightly over the tops if the cakes are browning quickly and not yet cooked.




