Hi,

I am making 3 tier cake for my mums surprise birthday in May, I will have to have it finished on the Friday and it will be ate on the Saturday night.

I was going to make a chocolate cake but a few family members are asking for my maderia cake as they adore it.

Never made Maderia with a filling, what goes well with it? When you do chocolate cake do you do chocolate buttercream....I usually do but it too boring?

Should I make each tier a different combo....a little stressed at thinking what people will like...I am just a hobby baker!

If you have any ideas that you think go down well with people please advise me, would be very much appreciated!

Hi there, yes, you can go for three different flavours. Madeirs, chocolate and carrot cake or coffee cake or fudge cake.

For the madeira, you can use vanilla buttercream filling not sure whether the raspberry jam goes with it well or not. But for the victoria sponge its fabulous.

I mix ganache and my normal buttercream for the filling for the chocolate cake. You can mix tiny bit of baileys to your normal choc buttercream or maybe a hint of orange juice. Because chocolate and orange goes well together.

HTH.

The raspberry puree filling by melysa here on CC is terrific. I just served it in an intense dark chocolate cake and it was delicious! Bottom layer was french vanilla cake and it was refreshing and awesome. Very easy and it is very thick. Great recipe!

What is maderia?

Bashini - thank you for the link!