• Pre-heat your oven to 325 degrees.
• Prepare 2, 9 inch round cake pans by greasing them and then dusting them with some flour and set aside.
• Now, sift all of your dry ingredients for your cake mix into a large bowl.
  1 ⅓ cups all purpose flour, 1 ⅓ cups sugar, 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder, ¼ teaspoon salt
• Next add your eggs, vanilla and butter and mix with a hand mixer or stand mixer on medium speed for about 1 minute. Your batter should be thick but not too thick to spread in the cake pans.
  1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 3 large eggs, 1 ⅓ cup unsalted butter at room temperature
• Now divide your batter into the 2 cake pans evenly. If it is not spreading easily, grease the back of a large spoon and use that to spread the batter around on the cake pan to reach the edges
• Place into the oven for 25-30 minutes until the cake is golden on top and a toothpick in the center comes out clean.
• When done, place on cooling racks for 5 minutes.
• After 5 minutes, run a knife along the edges of the cake to make sure it is not sticking to the side and then turn the cakes upside down onto the cooling rack and give a few good taps to the bottom of the cake pans to loosen them from the pan. They should pop out easily after doing this! If they do not, keep giving the bottom of the pans a few more good taps until they do.
• Let sit until completely cooled, about 30 minutes.

Cream Filling

• In a medium bowl, add your mascarpone, sour cream, honey and vanilla and mix on medium speed with a hand mixer until it is smooth and creamy.
  16 ounces mascarpone at room temperature, 8 ounces sour cream at room temperature, 1 tablespoon vanilla extract, ½ cup honey

Assembling

• Take one of your cakes and place it on a plate. Now add a few spoonfuls of your preserves and spread it all around on the cake in a thin layer.
  ½ cup fresh preserves
• Next take ½ of your mascarpone cream and spread that over top of the preserves. Next, add ½ of your fresh berries evenly over the cream.
  16 oz fresh berries
• Add your next cake over the top of this and gently press it into place.
• Repeat the steps above with the preserves, cream and berries. optional: dust the top with powdered sugar before serving
• Enjoy!