This fruit cake is the perfect summer, refreshing cake for any occasion. It’s an open cake, meaning no frosting covering the sides. This gives the cake a more minimalistic view but the different fruit on top gives it a pop of color as well as some complexity!!
Level: Medium
Total: 1 hr 25 min
Yield: 8 slices
Cook: 25 min
Ingredients: 12
Prep: 1 hr
Open Fruit Cake
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A stunning cake that is open! No frosting on the sides that gives the cake a different style(and it's also way easier). The fruit on top give the cake a lot of color and add so much flavor.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray two 8 inch pans with non-stick spray
Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt until well combined. Set aside.
Cream the butter and sugar on medium. Reduce speed and add eggs one at a time fully incorporating after each addition. Add vanilla.
Alternate adding flour mixture and buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour (3 additions of flour and 2 of milk). Fully incorporating after each addition.
Bake for 30-35mins or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean.
Place cakes on wire rack to cool for 10mins then turn out onto wire rack.
Vanilla Buttercream
Place egg whites and sugar into the bowl of a stand mixer, whisk until combined
Place bowl over a pot with 1-2" of simmering water and whisk constantly until the mixture is hot and no longer grainy to the touch or reads 160F on a candy thermometer (approx. 3mins)
Place bowl on your stand mixer and whisk on med-high until the meringue is stiff and cooled
Switch to paddle attachment. Slowly add cubed butter and mix until smooth
Add vanilla and whip until smooth.
Assembling Cake
Place first layer of vanilla cake on cake stand or plate
(OPTIONAL) Add mango pulp on top of cake. You can poke holes in the cake so the cake will absorb the mango pulp.
Apply a dollop of buttercream and use an offset spatula to spread around cake. Spread all the way to the edge so frosting will be seen on the sides of the cake.
Add second layer of vanilla cake on top of frosting.
(OPTIONAL) Add mango pulp.
Spread more buttercream on top, covering the whole cake.
Wash fruit(strawberries, grapes, blueberries)
Cut mangoes into thin long strands. Continue, making strands shorter and shorter as you go. Place the strands in a circular manner to make a flower shape.