Fat Cake Recipe

This cake had so much in it I couldn't think what to name it so I've gone for Fat Cake - which is quite accurate! My challenge for Jimmy's birthday was to try to make him the best cake he had ever eaten - so my first thoughts were how many things can I combine in one cake!? I ended up creating a Chocolate cake, iced with more chocolate, topped with chocolate fingers and filled with Rocky Road style frosting. See recipe below at your peril!

Fat Cake Ingredients

6 oz Butter

4 oz Brown/Muscovado Sugar

2 oz Caster Sugar

3 eggs

6 oz Self Raising Flour

2 tbsp Cocoa Powder

Approx. 2 oz Cooking Chocolate

1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda

Fat Cake Topping/Filling Ingredients

1 pack Cadburys Chocolate Fingers

Approx. 3oz Cooking Chocolate

2 oz Butter

2 oz Cream Cheese

4 oz Icing Sugar

1 block White Chocolate

1 share size bag of Smarties or any other sweets

1 bag Marshmallows

Recipe
1. Cream the butter and sugar together with a fork or electric whisk.
2. Slowly add the eggs, beating with a wooden spoon.
3. Add the flour, cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda, folding in with a metal spoon.
4. Line 2 round tins with baking paper and spoon mixture evenly into each tin. Bake at 180 C for 15-20 minutes.

5. While cake is cooking prepare the rocky road filling. Beat the butter, cream cheese and icing sugar together and mix in about 1 oz of the melted chocolate. Cut the marshmallows into small pieces, break the white chocolate up into pieces and mix that in  along with the sweets.
6. Remove cake from oven and leave on wire rack to cool.
7. When cool, sandwich two sponges together with the rocky road filling and try not to eat it all while you do so!
8. Melt the remaining chocolate and spread over the top of the cake. Arrange the chocolate fingers on top and voila, done!

Two things I should point out :
1 - there probably won't be any room for candles ( I balanced one on top!)
2 - I had to move the shelves in my fridge to get this to fit! It does need to be refrigerated because of the butter and cream cheese.

Mad Hatters Afternoon Tea at Suka

We spent a very enjoyable afternoon today consuming some very unusual and very sugary delights at Suka, a restaurant in the Sanderson hotel in Fitzrovia. I had booked a 'Mad Hatter's Afternoon Tea' as a late birthday treat for Jimmy as I know what a fan he is of anything sweet and edible! We had eaten afternoon tea at Harrods before (where they mistakenly told us we could eat as much as we like so I'm not sure we're allowed back..), but this was a completely different experience!

We first ordered a cocktail each which were amazing and rather strong!, before choosing a tea, mine had a flowering Jasmine blossom in the bottom of it, and an assortment of goodies were brought to the table to be eaten in a particular order.

We started with rainbow coloured sandwiches - green, pink, yellow and brown coloured with spinach, beetroot and saffron before an exploding lollipop and one that felt hot and cold on each side. Traditional scones were definitely the best ever tasted, and we then had some beautifully decorated cakes which were incredibly sweet! We finished the tea with a small bottle that instructed 'drink me' through a straw. Three flavours were layered inside - passionfruit, panna cotta and exotic foam (still not quite sure what that means!).

At the end of the meal we were given a key each to try to open a box with a prize inside. Unfortunately we weren't in luck but Jimmy did spot an Oreo cookie cupcake on a after-tea meander that suited him just as nicely (a man giving away mango smoothies lured us in).

Afternoon tea was amazing, it was something really different as well as making our tummies very happy!