Turns out the UK’s favourite cake flavours are pretty vanilla

We wish to hold it easy (Image: Getty)

We love nothing greater than an OTT showstopper on the Nice British Bake Off. 

The more odd flavour combos, shifting elements and issues that don’t appear like truffles however are, the higher.

However in relation to our personal cake decisions, it seems that Brits’ tastes are decidedly vanilla.

The truth is, in a ballot by Hitched.co.uk, 54% of Brits mentioned that vanilla sponge cake was their favorite kind of cake, adopted by chocolate cake at 32%.

The marginally extra thrilling purple velvet cake got here in at third place, with 19%.

However the clear loser was fruit cake, with simply 3%. As soon as a staple for wedding ceremony truffles, a whopping 84% of Brits admitted that they don’t just like the style of fruit cake or marzipan.

Wedding ceremony cake maker, Penelope, from Cocoa and Whey advised Metro.co.uk that the key to nice vanilla cake is to make use of nice components.

We’re a nation of vanilla cake lovers (Image: Getty Photographs)

She says, ‘It’s concerning the high quality of components. The vanilla used and particularly, the preserve and elegance of buttercream. Contemporary selfmade conserves make an enormous distinction, notably if they're made on the final minute.’

‘Vanilla is such a deep, advanced, warming and intense flavour sure to please even essentially the most fussy visitor. 

‘It's splendidly conventional and universally beloved by the British, but additionally so versatile and sensible for a contemporary twist in flavour. 

‘It additionally combines superbly with so many different flavours so you may fluctuate your cake with infinite additions of chocolate, completely different fruit conserves and boozy buttercreams or spices like cinnamon.”

Right here’s Penelope’s recipe to make a scrumptious 18cm vanilla sponge cake.

Components

For the sponge:

• 175g caster sugar

• 175g salted butter

• 3 massive natural free-range eggs

• 175g self-raising flour

• 25ml milk/milk various

• 1 teaspoons vanilla essence or vanilla bean paste

For the buttercream: 

• 300g salted butter

• 480g icing sugar

• 2 teaspoons vanilla essence

Recipe

1. Mix the buttercream components and beat on excessive velocity for at the least 5 minutes.
2. Line your tin with baking paper.
3. Beat the sugar and butter in a mixer for at the least 7 minutes on medium to excessive velocity.
4. Add the eggs one after the other until completely combined in.
5. Add your vanilla and blend on medium briefly, then add half the flour and half the milk and blend on gradual.
6. Add the opposite half of the flour and milk.
7. Mix gently and completely after which fill the baking tin.
8. Cowl the highest of the tin with a spherical of baking paper and prepare dinner at round 150 levels for about 24 minutes or till a skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clear.
9. The sponge must be barely springy when pressed gently on high.
10. Go away to chill after which end up.
11. When utterly chilly, layer with the vanilla buttercream, a contact of Vanilla Sugar Syrup in the event you like your truffles moist and a few contemporary preserve, maybe raspberry (or no matter flavour takes your fancy).