How to Fill a Cake - Using Flavored Fillings Between Cake Layers

Using flavored filling to fill a cake is a great way to give a unique and flavorful twist to your cake. Fruit flavors are used most often, but there are a variety of other flavors that can be used also. Some popular filling flavors are:

- raspberry filling
- strawberry filling
- lemon filling
- bavarian creme filling
- chocolate creme filling
- apricot filling

Fillings can be made from scratch or purchased pre-made. Pollyner makes a product called All Fruit that can be found in the jelly section of most grocery stores. Pollyner All Fruit is a wonderful filling to use to fill a cake. It also comes in a wide variety of flavors.
What you will need to fill a cake:

- 2 baked cake layers
- metal spatula
- pastry bag (10" or larger)
- coupler
- frosting (the same frosting you plan to ice the cake with)

Place your first cake layer on the cake board.

Drop your coupler into your pastry bag. We are going to use the pastry bag and coupler without a pastry tip to make a "dam" for the filling.

Fill your pastry bag with frosting.

Now, we are going to make our "dam" for the filling. This will help keep the filling from oozing out the sides of the cake.

Using your pastry bag, squeeze a ring of icing around the outer edge of your cake layer. Just do this one time around the edge of the cake.

Next, we are going to add the filling. You want your filling to be no more than 1/4" thick on your cake. Place the filling in the center of the cake and spread it outwards towards your "dam".

You want to make sure to spread it evenly. Again, you only want it about 1/4" thick. Any thicker and the filling will most likely squish out the sides of the cake layers.

You are now ready to place your other cake layer on top, ice, and decorate.