How to Make Luscious Cake Desserts with Fruit and Sauces
I get a lot of my cake and bread mixes from The Prepared Pantry – it requires some thought and ordering in advance but they keep for months, and you will always have the fixin’s for a great cake and dessert on hand! So order away!
Get your vanilla bean cake mixes here
Vanilla Bean Cake with Raspberries or Blackberries and Lemon Sauce
Lemon and raspberry is a great combination. We made the lemon sauce from a mix and then added raspberries. We concluded it was better not to mix them, rather, pour the lemon sauce over the cake and add the berries.
We tried several flavors of whipped cream. We liked the lemon cloud whipped cream the best.
Step 1: Make the cake according to package instructions.
Step 2: Make the lemon sauce according to package instructions.
Step 3: Make the lemon whipped cream according to the recipe below.
Assemble the dessert.
Vanilla Bean Cake with a Blueberry Lemon Sauce
Lemon and blueberry is a classic combination. We liked the berries mixed right in the lemon sauce. It made a beautiful pink and magenta sauce.
The lemon cloud whipped cream was really the only choice for this dessert.
Step 1: Make the cake according to package instructions.
Step 2: Make the lemon sauce according to package instructions.
Step 3: Make the lemon whipped cream according to the recipe below.
Assemble the dessert.
Vanilla Bean Cake with Fresh Strawberries and Lemon Sauce
If you like strawberry shortcake, you’ll like this. The strawberries are just coming on; they’ll be a little better later in the season. Still, this was very good.
The dessert in the image was made with lemon sauce. If you prefer buttermilk syrup any of the following would work well:
Buttermilk Syrup
Lawford Coconut Cream Syrup
Coconut Buttermilk Syrup
We didn’t try it but I bet a good chocolate sauce would have been very good.
Since we used lemon sauce, we stuck with lemon whipped cream.
Step 1: Make the cake according to package instructions.
Step 2: Make the lemon sauce according to package instructions.
Step 3: Make the lemon whipped cream according to the recipe below.
Assemble the dessert.
Vanilla Bean Cake with Peaches in Caramel Sauce and Caramel Whipped Cream
Buttermilk syrup tastes like a cross between caramel syrup and butterscotch syrup. We added frozen peach slices right to the syrup. That was a mistake. It thinned the syrup too much. It tasted great but it was too thin. It’s best to use fresh peaches or let the frozen slices thaw a bit and then pat them dry. Pour the sauce over the slices and the cake.
Caramel whipped cream was dynamite with this.
Step 1: Make the cake according to package instructions.
Step 2: Make the lemon sauce according to package instructions.
Step 3: Make the lemon whipped cream according to the recipe below.
Assemble the dessert.
