Fake Bakes Recipe - Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake

Our customers LOVE pink cakes. Two of our most popular luxury birthday cakes are the Pink Flamingo and the Pink Sweetheart cakes. But it's clear that even the WHOLE WORLD WIDE WEB loves a pink cake considering it is the most viewed and liked cake on my TikTok account.

Pink PB&J Sainsburys Cake

Pink also happens to be my personal favourite. So for Mother's Day, X-Ray thought he'd make me a pink cake. Well, him offering to make me one obviously transpires into me actually doing all the legwork for it. I headed to the big Tesco Extra near us in Isleworth and scoured their bakery for a strawberry cake but sadly it pushed me over the £10 Fake Bake budget when I included all my decorating bits and bobs. So I decided to put the delicious-sounding Strawberries and White Chocolate cakes back on the shelf and picked up two of the budget Raspberry sponges instead.

Fake Bake Recipe Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake - ingredients

But hey, I got a strawberry Swiss roll and the prettiest pink coloured Hershey's Strawberries & Cream chocolate bars. So we can still have a pink strawberry-ish & cream cake.

Fake Bake Recipe Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake

Clearly, none of my followers minded the raspberry sponge adulteration as it's fast become of THE most popular cakes in the Fake Bake series, rivalling the Tesco PB&J and Sainsbury's Choc Orange fake bakes.

Fake Bake Recipe - Strawberries & Cream

@angesdesucre £10 fake bake - strawberry-ish & cream cake at Tesco for #mothersday #cakedecorating #cakesoftiktok #foryou #fyp #strawberriesandcream ♬ MI CHIQUITA - Alexander McCabe

Ingredients

2x Ready-made Raspberry Sponge Cakes (5" or 6" size)

1 tub (400g) of ready-made Strawberry flavour frosting

Strawberry Swiss roll

2x Hersheys Strawberries & Cream chocolate bars

Pink wafers

Pink & Gold Sprinkle mix

Method

1. Prepare the cake decorating station with a cake turntable, angled palette knife, cake scraper, a cake board, a tablespoon, a piping bag fitted with a small star nozzle, a knife and a spatula.

2. Unbox the cakes. Smear a dollop of frosting in the middle of the cake board on the turntable, and then place one of the layer cakes on the board. Decant the frosting into a bowl and whip or stir to loosen and lighten it. Smooth a strawberry frosting layer on top of the cake with an angled palette knife.

Fake Bake Recipe Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake - sponge layers

3. Stack the second layer cake on top. Pipe the frosting around the cake and on top. Smooth the top of the cake.

Fake Bake Recipe Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake - smooth frosting

4. Run a cake scraper along the sides of the cake to smooth. Place in the fridge to chill and set.

Fake Bake Recipe Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake - frosted cake

5. Make the Strawberries & Cream ganache. Melt one and a half Hershey's Strawberries & Cream bars over a double boiler or in a microwave safe bowl at 30 seconds at a time, stirring between each blast. When it has melted, add 2-4 teaspoons of warm water and stir into a dripping consistency.

6. Decorate the base of the cake with sprinkles.

Fake Bake Recipe Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake - decorate base

7. Slice the Swiss rolls. Drip the ganache over the tops of the slices using a teaspoon or a piping bag. Decorate with sprinkles.

Fake Bake Recipe Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake - decorated swiss rolls

8. Pour a tablespoon of ganache along the sides of the cake. Use the back of the spoon to push drips gently over the edge.

Fake Bake Recipe Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake - drip

9. Fit a piping bag with a small star nozzle tip and fill with the remaining frosting. Pipe swirls over the top of the cake.

Fake Bake Recipe Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake - pipe frosting swirls

10. Place the Swiss roll slices on top of the cake.

Fake Bake Recipe Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake - decorate

Finish decorating the cake with pink wafers and sprinkles.

Fake Bake Recipe Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake - top view

I took a HUGE gamble on the Swiss roll and I think it paid off in trumps. It does NOT look like a £1 item at all (well...technically it's not I guess as I added ganache and sprinkles to it...but you know what I mean).

Fake Bake Recipe Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake - strawberry swiss rolls

With some of it spare you could even style a cute little dessert table with the remaining slices and pink wafers. That would make quite an eye-catching dessert buffet for just a tenner!

Fake Bake Recipe Tesco Strawberries & Cream Cake - slice

If you CBA, and still need a wow-factor cake delivered, look no further than our original and forever-popular Pink Sweetheart cake.

Pink Sweetheart cake London

 

Lots of love,

Reshmi xoxo

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