Hi guys!
Today is the 21st of July! It is the National Holiday of Belgium.
I wasn’t all that festive last year with this Summer Pasta, but this year I go all caloribombing all over again!
Woohoo!
The National Holiday of Belgium… What better way to celebrate than with a Flag Cake!
I’ve seen some beautiful Flag Cakes for the 4th of July and I thought Belgium deserved the same 🙂
So here it is: The 21st of July Flag Cake!
Want some history about our National Holiday?
Wikipedia says it so well:
In 1830, drawing inspiration from the recent July Revolution in France, the southern provinces of the United Netherlands rebelled against Dutch rule after a period of growing economic and religious disparity and political alienation. The Dutch were forced out of much of the area and Belgium gained independence. A National Congress was created to write a Constitution for the new state.
The Congress decided that the new country would be a constitutional monarchy (associated with political stability) rather than a republic, in order to reassure foreign governments and the Belgian middle class who associated republicanism with “mob rule” in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789. The Congress called upon Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha, a German nobleman, to be the first King of the Belgians on 4 June 1831.
Accepting the invitation, Leopold was crowned King. In the ceremony, Leopold vowed to accept the Constitution drawn up by the National Congress, officially bringing it into force. The 21 July 1831, is therefore a date commonly used by historians to denote the end of the Belgian Revolution and the start of the Kingdom of Belgium.
What do we need:
Cake
- 4,5 dl whole milk / full cream
- 450 g self-raising flour
- 1 bag vanilla sugar (+- 8 g)
- a pinch of salt
- 230 g butter
- 380 g sugar
- 4 eggs
- juice from 1/2 lemon
- baking paper
- square baking tin
Topping
- 250 g cream cheese
- 300 ml cream
- powder sugar (you can add as much as you like, it’s all about how you like it :))
- 150 g raspberries
- 150 g blackberries
- 150 g cape gooseberries
How to:
Preheat the oven at 180 degrees centigrade.
Place some baking paper in your baking tin.
Mix together the butter and the sugar (both kinds) until it becomes a smooth mixture.
Add the eggs.
Put the flour and the salt in it and mix well together.
Pour in the milk and the lemon juice.
Mix it all together until the batter is perfectly smooth.
Bake for about 30 minutes.
Let it cool a bit in the oven, then on a rack.
You can remove it from the baking tin if it’s almost completely cold.
Meanwhile we can make the topping.
Beat the cream. Add the cream cheese and the powder sugar.
Beat it until it’s completely whipped.
Put the topping on the cake. You can have it anyway you like it: Thick, thin, wavy, smooth, …
Add the fruit in the shape of the Belgian Flag and you’re done!
Call your friends and family and celebrate this joyfull day!
Or you can bring it to your neighbours, they won’t complain 😉
Have a delicious day ❤
xxx Sarah
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This looks so festive! I have never seen gooseberries here in the states. I have only heard of them in England!
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Thank you! 🙂 I don’t think every country has them because I’ve heard several comments like that 🙂
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This looks so festive and delicious! Thanks for sharing at What’d You Do This Weekend?!
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So happy you like it 🙂 Thanks!
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So pretty! I have never had those gooseberries before. Not sure if they are available on my side of the pond. All the more reason to visit Belgium right!?
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Thank you 🙂 Hahahahaha absolutely! 😉
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I’m new to gooseberries- but I have never seen or heard of cape gooseberries. What a PERFECT yellow stripe!! Love patriotic baking too! 😉
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My dictionary told me the name so I don’tknow if it’s correct xD But they are gooseberries though 🙂 Thank you so much Josette! Happy you like my cake 🙂
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What a pretty flag cake and thanks for giving Fiesta Friday a history lesson. I love to use fresh fruit it just really makes a dessert shine. Happy FF!
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Thank you 🙂 Haha a little bit of history about a country’s holiday is always nice to read I think 🙂 It really does make the dessert shine 😀 Happy FF!
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Love the gooseberries. They are beautiful. We don’t have them here.
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Thank you 🙂 Really? Oh well, I didn’t know they existed until I saw them :p
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Looks delicious! Happy FF! 🙂
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Thank you! Happy FF 🙂
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The Cape Gooseberries were such a great idea for the middle! Thanks for sharing a bit about your country as well. Happy FF, and have a wonderful weekend! 😀
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Aww thanks Kaila! The inspiration came from these gorgeous 4th Flag Cakes 🙂 And the gooseberries were the only fruit I knew that was yellow and round :p Happy Ff! Enjoy the weekend!
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Looks delicious! And so creative! I don’t think I have ever seen gooseberries before!
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Thank you 🙂
I hadn’t found them either in stores but I saw them this week and I knew I had to use them instead of the bananas I was planning to use :p
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Hi Sara – Happy Belgium Day! Brugge is one of my favorite places on earth to visit, and I fell in love with the Belgium people! This cake looks amazing, thanks for sharing! Hugs, Holly
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Thank you so much Holly 🙂
I love Brugge to, it is so tiny, beautiful, cozy and romantic 🙂
Hugs!
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I thought those were cape gooseberries. I would never have thought to use them in a dessert. They are so pretty nestled between the berries. Happy 4th! 😉
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Haha Thanks 🙂 I first wanted to go with bananas but they get brown xD
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