Chocolate & Vanilla Cake with Fig, Pistachio, & Burnt Honey

Chocolate and vanilla olive oil cake layers, brushed with a honey cake soak, then filled with fig jam and pistachio brittle. Frosted in a burnt honey Italian meringue buttercream. The Gemini cake.

Here is the Gemini installment of my astrology cake series!

As for all my astrology cakes, I look at the traditional correspondences for each sign in terms of colors, fruits, flavors etc, and develop the cake from there; adding my own personal interpretations. For Gemini, yellow and nuts are both traditional, which I then cross-referenced with the seasonal offerings of spring. Because of the classic twin/two face iconography of Gemini, I felt doing one chocolate and one vanilla layer was a no brainer.

This cake is my rich chocolate olive oil sponge as well as my vanilla bean olive oil sponge, brushed in sweet honey cake soak. The cake is filled with fresh fig jam (jarred would work too!) and bite sized chunks of a homemade salted pistachio brittle. The cake is then enveloped in a silky burnt honey Italian meringue buttercream that has been dyed pastel yellow naturally using turmeric.