Mother’s Day is one of the most special of the year, you and I know very well that love for the woman who gave your life should not only be shown on that day, but it is true that it is an occasion, a I would say an excuse, the only one to do something different, to share, to enjoy moments that will always remain in our memory. What if for Mother’s Day you surprise yours with a delicious sweet for your mom? In this article, we share some cake recipes for Mother’s Day and we detail them step by step. You will love it!
Delicious cake recipes to celebrate Mother’s Day as it deserves
Nobody becomes bitter by a candy! And it is that, as much as there are those who prefer salty snacks, it cannot be denied that sweets, biscuits and cakes are most appetizing, especially if they are enjoyed in the best company and served with a good cup of hot coffee or tea. As we know that everyone likes colors and that everyone likes one thing more: chocolate, phrases, apples… we have prepared a batch of very varied, simple and delicious recipes, so you can choose the one you like best and delight mom with a very special detail.
Read the ingredients and the steps, make your list with what you need to buy and, if you wish, give it your personal touch in the decoration.
Tart sponge cake with strawberry cream filling
We start with a very simple recipe that requires few ingredients , I’m sure you already have most of them in your kitchen, and with very easy preparation steps, so much so that even the little ones in the house can participate. Let’s do it!
Ingredients for the cake:
- A natural or Greek yogurt
- A measure of the glass of sugar yogurt
- Three measures of wheat flour (can be integral)
- A measure of mild oil
- 3 eggs
- A packet of chemical yeast
Steps to make the cake:
- On the one hand, mix the dry ingredients (remember to sift the flour and mix it with the yeast so that it is fine and well integrated), on the other hand the liquid ingredients and then mix them together so that there are no lumps, you can do it with a fork or with the blender, as it is easier for you.
- We grease a mold with oil and flour so that it does not stick, pour the dough carefully not to hit it so that it does not lose the bubbles that have been created in its preparation and bake for 35 minutes at 180 degrees. Before taking it out of the oven, test the knife (insert the tip and check that it comes out clean) to make sure it is done, otherwise it will prolong cooking a little longer.
- Let cool, cut in half, being careful not to break it, and reserve out of the fridge.
Ingredients for the strawberry tart filling:
- 200 g washed strawberries
- Two cups of whipping cream or whipping cream
- Two cups of white sugar
- 3 sheets of gelatin, you can also use powdered gelatin, about 7 grams
- A handful of strawberries cut into pieces to decorate the cake
Steps for the mouse filling of the biscuit cake:
- Cut the strawberries and crush. Hydrate the gelatin sheets with cold water for a few minutes.
- Next, beat the cold cream and add, little by little, the sugar; keep beating until some kind of deep grooves are formed. Reserve in the fridge.
- Drain the gelatin, place in a container and pour two tablespoons of the strawberry puree that you had prepared. Heat in the microwave so that the gelatin is melted.
- Pour the gelatin into the rest of the puree, add the whipped cream and mix again until everything is well integrated.
- Now fill the cake that you had cut in half with the strawberry mousse and decorate the surface with small pieces of cut strawberries. It’s ready!
Special chocolate cake for Mother’s Day
Does your mother love sweet? Is she into chocolate? Do you love sweet cakes in which the main ingredient is chocolate? Then this recipe will be the best gift for Mother’s Day. Take good note of the ingredients and do not skip any steps.
Ingredients for the base of the cake:
- 100 grams of cookies that we will use for the base
- 65 grams of softened butter
- For the filling:
- 200g chocolate
- 500 g of cream cheese at room temperature
- 150 g of white or brown sugar
- 2 medium eggs or one large one
- 70 grams of wheat flour
- 1 plain yogurt
- A pinch of salt to enhance the flavors
- 120 g of liquid cream
- For the coverage:
- 100 g of special couverture milk chocolate
- 1 teaspoon of flower honey, better if it is organic
- 150 g of liquid cream
Step-by-step preparation:
- Break the cookies into small pieces, crush and mix with the softened butter. When you have it ready, cover the base of the mold that you are going to use. Booking.
- For the filling, melt the chocolate in a bain-marie. Mix the cheese with the sugar. Incorporate the eggs one by one, add the chocolate and stir well, you can use the stick mixer if you prefer.
- Once you have it ready, add the flour and a pinch of salt.
- Pour the mixture into the mold and bake fifteen minutes at 180º. Lower the oven temperature to 130º and continue baking until you reach 70 minutes.
- Once the baking is ready, let cool and unmold.
- For the coverage or ganache, heat the cream together with the honey in a saucepan. Turn off the heat, add the chocolate and mix until you get a homogeneous cream. Let it temper for about ten minutes and pour over the cake.
- You can decorate the cake with fruits cut into small pieces as you like.
Cookie cake of a lifetime for Mother’s Day
This other recipe is also ideal to surprise mom for her day , enjoy a delicious sweet and tell her, not just with words , everything you love her and how much you appreciate everything she does for you every day.
Ingredients:
- 200 grams of square cookies, your favorites
- Flan preparation, you can buy it or you can make it yourself
- Half a liter of milk for the flan and 250 ml. More to dip the cookies
- 4 tablespoons white or brown sugar
- 50 grams of butter
- 170 g of chocolate for desserts
- 100 g whipping cream
Step by step for its preparation:
- We prepare the flan with the milk, if you have bought it you will need two envelopes, follow the manufacturer’s instructions.
- Put the milk in a bowl and, one by one, carefully dip the cookies. They should be well soaked but without falling apart.
- In a mold put a first layer of the flan mixture and on top one of cookies.
- Then add another layer of flan and another layer of cookies and continue like this until you finish all the ingredients.
- For the chocolate coverage, heat the cream in a saucepan, when it starts to boil, remove from the heat and add the chocolate and butter. Stir well so that all the ingredients are integrated and there are no lumps.
- Pour the coverage on top of the cake, help yourself with a spatula to make good use of the mixture. Let cool a bit and it is ready to drink with a cup of tea or coffee. How rich we have been!
Pineapple cake with biscuit or biscuit base
If you are running out of time but you are not going to miss out on the opportunity to have a detail for Mother’s Day, with this recipe you will find the solution.
Ingredients:
- 15 ladyfingers or 15 rectangular cookies
- 1 liter of liquid cream to mount
- 2 cans of pineapple in its juice
- 2 envelopes of pineapple jelly of 85 grams each
Step-by-step preparation:
- The first thing we will do is take the pineapple slices out of the can and dip the biscuits or cookies in the juice. Then we will put it on the base of the mold.
- Reserve a few pieces of pineapple and crush the rest together with the cream.
- We heat the remaining juice and put the gelatin leaves in it. We mix and remove.
- Now we mix the crushed pineapple, the juice with the gelatin and the cream. Once we have it, we pour the mixture on the base that we already had in the mold and we keep it in the fridge for an hour. After that time we unmold and serve. A delicious recipe!
Apple Pie for Mother’s Day
A special one based on fine and crunchy apple could not be missing from our list of cakes for Mother’s Day, you will love it!
Ingredients:
- 4 medium yellow apples, they are the sweetest
- 250 g apple compote
- 1 sheet of puff pastry
- 15g butter
- apple jelly
- a little sugar
Step-by-step preparation:
- We begin to prepare this cake and, for this, we preheat the oven to 180º with upper and lower heat.
- Take a baking tray and place the baking paper on it. Then we put the puff pastry sheet that we had prepared on the baking paper.
- We whistle it with a little of the melted butter and sprinkle a little sugar. Once we have it ready, we put another tray on top and turn it over so that the part in which we have put sugar now acts as a base.
- On top we put the apple compote and very thin apple slices, do it slowly and carefully so that it looks good, it looks nice and, above all, do not reach the edges, leave a little space.
- Once you have finished with this step, we paint again with butter and sprinkle with some sugar. This step is important, we place a grid on top of the cake that adds weight and prevents the puff pastry from rising. Bake for 35 minutes until we see that it is slightly golden.
- A few minutes before the end of the 35 minutes, we removed the tray that we had placed to make it weigh and let it finish browning.
- Remove from the oven, varnish with the apple jelly, wait a few minutes for it to temper and it would be ready to serve for a special Mother’s Day.