How to Cook Club Sandwich Cake
Serves: 6-8
Preparation time: 30 mins + 1 hour (inactive)
Cooking time: 5 mins
Ingredients needed to make Club Sandwich Cake:
- 4’’ bread loaves
- 10 small gherkin dill pickles, diced
- 12 turkey meat slices
- 6 bacon strips, cooked
- 10 oz ham, diced
- 1 medium avocado, peeled and stoned
- ½ red onion, thinly sliced
- ¾ cup mayonnaise
- 3 tbsp butter, divided
- Dash of garlic powder
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
For the icing:
- 4 oz sour cream
- 8 oz cream cheese
- Dash of garlic powder
- Kosher salt and ground black pepper to taste
For serving:
- 6 radishes
- 1 red pepper
- 3 tbsp crumbled bacon
- Handful of lettuce, shredded
- Several parsley leaves
Cooking instructions for Club Sandwich Cake:
- Carve out 1’’ thick slices from the bread loaves and trim off their crusts with a sharp knife.
- Scoop out the flesh of the avocado into a small bowl and mash it into a smooth pulp.
- Whisk in 3 tbsp of mayonnaise, along with a dash of seasonings and garlic powder until well combined and set aside.
- Toss the pickles and ham together along with rest of the mayo as well as garlic powder and season with a dash of salt plus pepper until they blend into a uniform mixture.
- Spread softened butter across the bread slices and place one of them on a plate.
- Spread out ¼ of the avocado mixture across it and top it up with half of the bacon, followed by a layer of turkey meat.
- Spread another ¼ of the avocado mixture across another buttered bread slice and place it on top of the turkey meat layer, with the avocado-side facing down.
- Top it up with the ham-salad mixture and arrange the onion slices on top.
- Cover it with another bread slice and trim off any meat hanging out from the stacked sandwich.
- For the icing, whisk the sour cream and cream cheese together into a uniform mixture and cook it in the microwave for half a minute to soften it up a little.
- Sprinkle the seasonings as well as garlic powder on top and stir them into the icing.
- Spread the icing across the sides and base of the sandwich cake and smooth out with the help of a spatula.
- Decorate creatively with the garnishes and make the other cake in a similar fashion.
- Leave in the fridge for an hour or until the icing sets.
- Slice and serve.
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