I get asked very often, "how do I create my recipes" or " what inspires me to create recipes". Very often that is just what I happen to have in my fridge and what needs to be used up, so nothing fancier than that and no romantic, beautiful story there :D But also often it is the beautiful seasonal produce that tempts me and I cannot resist. In case of this recipe, it was both of these factors :) Since we have the garden, which provides us with the freshest possible seasonal produce, I also try to incorporate as much produce from our garden as possible into our meals. Earlier this week I was in the garden, picking some salad and sweet green peas for a new recpe (you can find it here) and while I was there I noticed our little gooseberry bush full of little jewls :) It is a really small bush, but it was full of berries and they were almost all ripe and ready to be picked. That is when I let myself get inspired by those little unexpected treasures and created this delicious gooseberry almond cream cake.

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Lately​ I have been a big fan of cakes like these. They are very low effort, they don´t take much time to make and you can either serve them as such or with some cream or ice cream on top. If you are looking for some more inspiration then I would also highly recommend this Rhubarb and Strawberry Almond cake, and this Peach and Almond Sour Cream Cake. I would categorize all these three in one group, but please don´t ask me to pick a favourite :) They are all amazing in their own way :) I would say, just try out all of them and choose your favourite that way, but of course you can just choose the one that has your favourite fruit/berries in it and just start with that :)

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Before I go and leave you here with the tutorial and the recipe I want to mention a couple of things about this cake. When I tried it for the first time, it made me really really happy as the flavours were exactly how I imagined and wanted them to be. The almond cake sponge is sweet, light and fluffy, and packed with flavour. The little gooseberries bring that little sour fruity taste to balance out the sweetness. And finally the light cream on top combines all of those flavours together and the end result is simply a perfect match :) Now that all of the cake has been devoured I need to inspect our gooseberry bush again to see whether I will be able to get enough berries for another one of these delicious cakes :)

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On​ the photos you will see that there are flowers on the cake. These are all edible flowers that I also have growing in the garden :) This is the first cake I decorated with my edible flowers and I must admit, I abosultely fell in love with it. I loved those bright and vibrant colours :) I think that even though it is quite a simple decoration, it still looks stunning. But I must admit it was a bit of a challenge :D As garden flowers come with little travellers inside them and it took me quite some time to get rid of those in order to be able to put the flowers on the cake :D I mean, no one wants a cake with cream and bugs, or? :D 

 

I was planning a little garden tour along with this recipe, but I forgot my tripod at home and I had no one there with me to film the whole thing. That is why the video does have a little part filmed in the garden, at the end, but it doesn´t show the whole garden. I will try and get a proper tour filmed soon and then I will make sure to share it with you :)​

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Happy Baking lovelies!