I'm doing a huge baby shower for my sister-in-law on the 30th. This is their first baby and we never thought they would actually have one. So I am going ALL OUT for this shower. The cake will be a 14" round on bottom with push in pillars to a 10" dummy cake and then the stand-up teddy bear cake on top. The teddy bear cake she wants just plain white. She also want the 14" to be white but would like some sort of a filling instead of the traditional buttercream filling. I am also serving punch, nuts and homemade mints and I'm using my chocolate fountain with strawberries. What are some ideas of fillings that will go along with this? I should say that this community is one that is "behind the times" and I have yet to see anyone have a filling cake. So I'd like to keep it kind of mild. My sister-in-law had mentioned strawberry filling mixed with a little buttercream but we were concerned that would be overkill with the chocolate and strawberries. What do you all think? Also it HAS to be a filling that DOES NOT require refrigeration (there is no way a 14" cake would fit in my frig!) Thanks so much for any help.
Missy
There are so many options! I do not think strawberry filling would be overkill, it would tie in with the strawberry chocolate theme. If not that, raspberry filling would be good or you could use Nutella to tie into the chocolate theme. Or an oreo cookie filling, does she have a fav flavor of anything?
A white cake with strawberry filling is one of my favorites. It would tie in well withthe rest of the foods. Another filling I like is lemon, and I use plain old lemon pie filling. I'm not a big lemon fan, but it is nice and light when used as a filling.
Don't use strawberries twice.
Rasberry is always popular, and more important no one hates it or is allergic to it. Same for lemon.
Pie fillings work great. The presentation looks nicer with the more layers you have, too. For example, with a 2- layer cake, split the layers so you have 4 layers of cake and 3 layers of filling. This way you can make the filling layer a bit thinner, since you will have 3 layers, it helps break up the flavor. Or you could put the pie filling in the layers and buttercream in the very center. (cake, pie fill, cake, bc, cake, pie fill, cake) That looks nice when cut and might be a good transition for those not used to fillings
I have been reading so much about adding the vanilla/carmel coffee creamer to a white cake and using carmel filling that my brain is just stuck on it. I might have to make one just to get it off of my mind. I thought it might be something different for you though.
Don't use strawberries twice.
Rasberry is always popular, and more important no one hates it or is allergic to it. Same for lemon.
I am EXTREMELY allergic to lemon- never assume that nobody is allergic to something 
.
I also don't think that strawberry would be overkill, but raspberry, lemon ( 
) , orange, or even chocolate would be nice too. Not very many ways you could go wrong here!
Amber
I use lemon a lot with white cake. The wilton recipe is very good and easy to make
Try making up the Whipped Cream Buttercream recipe here:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2019-Whipped-Cream-Buttercream-Frosting.html
After it's all whipped up, add in 1/2 a sleeve of strawberry filling and 1 cup of chocolate that's been chopped up fine in a food processor.
It does not require refrigeration. I did this a few weeks ago and it got RAVE reviews. I put it in chocolate cake, but I think it would make a really light dreamy filling for white cake.
I would suggest using bavarian cream and then fresh sliced strawberries, followed by another layer of bavarian cream. Got the idea off of a Rachel Ray $40-a-day show, when she visited Las Vegas -she went to this popular bakery and that filling is their most popular one.
BTW -we need to have an emoticon that shows a "drooling" face!
If you're going all out, you might have a couple of add'l items to dip in your chocolate fountain for those who may not be a fruit person (oh, that's sounds funny!). A couple of the popular items with my chocolate fountains are marshmellows and graham crackers (with the chocolate gives you that smores taste!). The graham cracker sticks are great for this!
And raspberry filling is my favorite!
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