France has had a long tradition of beautifully presented layered cakes, which are the very close equivalent of the naked cakes. Here at Gourmandises, we follow the traditional layered cake recipe, we use a genoise sponge as a base, it is lighter than the victoria sponge, we bespoke the butter cream to your taste. We make a meringue buttercream, which again is lighter than the one traditionally used, it can be flavoured to your taste, chocolate, vanilla, coffee, salted caramel, raspberry, strawberry, cherry, blueberrry or even passion fruit or lemon…the choice is yours. The naked cake can be presented as a two to five tiers or even more. We tend to lavishly decorate them, with fruits, flowers, macarons, chocolate decorations, in true French style. Extravagance and elegance all in one!