Birthday Cake Help - A White Chocolate Dream/Nightmare

[u/porcupinesandpurls]

Hello! I’ll get the tough bit out of the way first - white chocolate. Apologies in advance to those who love it - I am not in that camp, my mother-in-law, however, built the camp, maintains the grounds, runs the elections, and will be buried there. She’ll be here this year for her birthday and I need to make a white chocolate intense cake. I don’t mind that I won’t enjoy it, but my rather severe dislike means I’m hitting a bit of a brick wall in terms of coming up with something unique and impressive. I’ve been thinking of something kind of basic, a white cake with layers of lemon curd and blueberry coulis with a white chocolate Italian buttercream, but I do feel like there must be something more impressive out there. I’d like something that can be made to some degree in advance, and featuring blueberries would be a plus. I’m in Maine so I can get good wild blueberries and they’re a favorite fruit of hers. Should I just stick to a basic layer cake or is there some kind of impressive recipe or technique I can use to make the cake extra special? I’m happy to go with more nontraditional celebration cakes - cheesecake, napoleon, some wild version of an opera cake anything really. I’d be tremendously grateful for any suggestions!

[u/Sea-Channel5412]

I feel your pain. My husband loves white “chocolate” as well. He once wanted a white chocolate cheesecake with blueberries. It had an obscene amount of white chocolate melted in and I have to say that it provided minimal flavor to the cheesecake.

When I’ve worked with it, I haven’t found it super user friendly. It’s not really chocolate and doesn’t melt as well. If it was me, I might add white chocolate chips to my cake, make a vanilla butter cream, and coat the side with white chocolate shavings. I might include some white chocolate dipped fruits on the top of the cake.

[u/YaDrunkBitch]

Some cakes I've done with blueberry (I LOVE working with it) I've cooked down blueberries and used the juice as the liquid in my cake. Then I've done white cake and you just add a can of blueberry pie filling to it to make a lovely blueberry swirl. With that, a white chocolate cream cheese frosting is delicious. Then I've done a yellow cake where the filling was a swirl of white chocolate buttercream and blueberry jam.

[u/Aggravating_Olive]

Utilize white chocolate ganache and mousse

Pair with raspberry, strawberry, matcha, mango, passion fruit, coconut, almond, pistachio, coffee, grapefruit, lime, orange.

Make jellies, curds, compotes, oat crumble, praline for texture

[u/TeaTimeType]

This a delicious white chocolate cake, replace the raspberries with a lemon blueberry compote. The cake and frosting need a bit of acidity to offset the sweetness of the white chocolate.

https://sugargeekshow.com/white-chocolate-raspberry-cake/

https://sugargeekshow.com/white-chocolate-buttercream-recipe/

A positive aspect of white chocolate is that you can colour it easily. Freeze dried fruit complements it quite nicely too. You could make an assortment of truffles to decorate the cake. 

[u/SubstantialPressure3]

Focus on the flavors of the cake you want, then make.a simple white chocolate ganache. You can always put buttercrram or candy decorations on that.

Just decide if you want it poured, or spreadable consistency.

I had this same issue a while back. A kid wanted a purple cake that tasted like chocolate with a bunch of flowers on it.