Have you ever wondered about the endless possibilities of cake flavor combinations or cake taste ideas?
Which flavors go well together? Also, what cake flavor goes with buttercream frosting? What flavor and filling go well with lemon cake? Or even what flavor goes with a red velvet cake? And what filling should I use for red velvet cake? What goes with a chocolate cake? Which filling should I use in my chocolate cake? Which are the best cake combinations? What is the best cake filling combinations? Vanilla cake flavor combinations Best flavor and filling combinations And what are the best cake flavor combination for decorated cakes?
When I started my little cake business one of my challenges was to figure out what cake flavor combinations would go well together. I’d have all these questions in my head and spent hours trying small batches of recipes and seeing whether I really liked them or not. I’ve given away a lot of free cakes just to get feedback and inputs from family and friends. I love cakes and I love baking new flavors as much as eating them. Over the years I’ve lost count of the many experiments I’ve done with flavor ideas. I must admit that some have not made it to my books as keepers. And yet, I still enjoyed the process.
Red velvet cake – I love my red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, in fact, I prefer it with my no-butter cream cheese frosting but when I make it for an order with fondant I usually use Swiss Meringue Buttercream – it’s easier to work with and can stay out longer than cream cheese. Cake flavor that goes with lemon cake – I love lemon cake with lemon curd and lemon buttercream. But here the weather is so hot that in summer I don’t offer that flavor with fondant cakes. It has to be a buttercream cake with lemon curd and it has to be eaten within 3 days.
When I started cake decorating professionally, I started putting together a list of popular flavors and combinations and my list keeps getting longer and longer. see all chocolate cakes here
Almond cake with almond cream and white chocolate buttercream Use my Vanilla Cream Cake recipe and add some almond flavoring – layer it with my White Chocolate buttercream Champagne cake with strawberry mousse and champagne buttercreamFor the champagne, cake use my champagne cupcake recipe (just use the recipe cards at the bottom of each post to change serving size and it will calculate the recipe for you) Ginger-spiced cake with vanilla & honey buttercream –For the ginger-spiced cake use my gingerbread spice cake and add grated ginger for extra flavor. For honey buttercream- substitute some of the sugar in my vanilla buttercream with honey and omit the liquid. Earl Grey cake with lavender-flavored buttercream – add lavender flavoring to my vanilla buttercream to make a lavender-flavored buttercream. Vanilla Kahlua cake with Kahlua chocolate buttercream Vanilla cafe latte cake with coffee buttercream Chai latte cake with vanilla buttercream frosting Brown butter cake with whipped cream buttercream
see all buttercream frosting recipes here
Butter-based buttercream – simple all-purpose buttercreams like my velvet American buttercream, Vanilla buttercream (eggless) Decorators buttercream – often with all or some vegetable shortening to prevent the frosting from melting easily like my Bakery style frostings – Vanilla and chocolate frosting Cream Cheese based – made with cream cheese often with or without butter like my classic cream cheese is made butter which adds more stability and my no-butter cream cheese frosting when you want a more luxurious dessert-type frosting. Meringue buttercream – made with the addition of whipped egg whites. Less sweet than the classic butter-based buttercream like my Swiss Meringue or Italian Meringue Egg-based buttercream – like French Buttercream and German buttercream made with egg yolks then whipped to make a light and fluffy frosting with the addition of butter. Whipped Cream Frosting – the lightest of them all is, of course, simple whipped cream. I shared 5 different methods to make whipped cream at home. As well as a whipped cream buttercream frosting.
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Almond buttercream is just your vanilla buttercream with almond flavoring Mint buttercream – just a mint flavoring to vanilla buttercream Lemon buttercream – replace the liquid in the recipe with some lemon juice when making vanilla buttercream Nutella buttercream is just Nutella added to your vanilla buttercream too
Check out my post where I share how to make different buttercream flavors with one basic buttercream recipe. As well as, my post; One Vanilla cake with many different flavors and One Chocolate cake with many different flavors.
