I am making a cake for a 90th birthday party this weekend. The cake is a citrus flavored cake and I am unsure what to fill it with. It has to be something that can go un-refrigerated as I have to drive it three hours on Friday. Not to mention that it is a three tier cake and it won't fit in my fridge! I am pretty sure I will just fill it with buttercream but am not sure what flavor. TIA

What kind of citrus flavor is it?

you can use a complimentary flavor of fruit preserve or jelly. You can also mix the preserve with buttercream for a creamy fruit filling.

I have a lemon filling recipe that doesn't need refrigerated.... ?

What citrus flavor is it??

Lemon goes well with raspberry filling or cream cheese filling.

Orange would go well with cream cheese filling.

You can use the shelf stable fillings so no need to refrigerate. For the cream cheese, you can mix the cream cheese filling in with your buttercream until you get a consistency and flavor you want, will need to add some more powdered sugar to it.

Its a mix of lemon and orange. I'm also worried about oozing filling since its a three tier cake and is going to be heavy. How do you keep something soft like cream cheese from bulging out of your layers?
Jopalis: I would love your non-refrigerated lemon filling recipe!

Also, the inner supports (dowels/sps) are what hold up the upper tiers of cake, not the cake itself.

I would use wedding or creme bouquet or princess emulsion or lemon buttercream.

You could always add lemon and orange extract to your buttercream recipe and frost.

Or you could add the lemon and orange extract to the buttercream for just the inner layers and buttercream with the regular buttecream the outside.

Paul

Thanks guys! These are all great suggestions. Now I just have to choose!

I love your screen name, that's cute. If you make a stiff buttercream and apply it around the outside edge of the cake in about 1/2" the "dam" will keep your fillings from oozing out. Also, as long as you have a good support system it should be ok.