Durian Cake

MIL's bday was round the corner and she 'pre-ordered' a Durian cake from me... To make her happy, I obliged..

It's been almost a year since I last baked a Durian cake.. my 1st attempt (last year for her bday) wasn't really successful... the cake & durian filling was ok but my icing & decoration sucked.. :p I also encountered problems with the whipping cream then.. this year, I was determined to get it right!

I started off with baking 2 basic sponge cakes.. The recipe is similar to my Chocolate Sponge recipe, simply replace the cocoa powder with flour. I had to bake 2 of them in my 8" square tin as the cake was supposed to feed about 20 pax...

After sending off the batters into the oven, I began preparing my durian puree filling. I've browsed through many recipes and most of them require the durian puree to be mixed with whipped cream.. I did so last year and the fillings tasted yummy... However, this year I decided to omit the whipped cream..

To prepare Durian puree filling:

Ingredients:
- 1 medium size durian, remove seed
- 300ml of whipping cream

Method:
- Puree the durian pulp in the blender
- Whip the whipping cream until stiff peaks form
- Combine durian puree with whipped cream

To Assemble:
- Slice the sponge cake into 1/2 (Do this only when the cake is completely cooled)
- Spread the durian filling in between the layers
- Cover the whole cake with whipped cream (I whipped up another 300ml of whipping cream to cover the cake)
- Decorate as desire