It’s really simple with just a basic vanilla sponge cake baked inside a loaf tin which is then cut in half, has a bit of buttercream in the middle, the top thrown back on and then the fun part
You can easily make this as a birthdaycake. This Chocolate Easter Eggstravaganza Cake is a real show-stopper – yummy chocolate sponge, covered withchocolatefingers and mini-eggs, finished with a pretty Easter bow
It was my younger one’s birthday and she requested new bike and a day out instead of the party… and then the hedgehog cakewithchocolate sticks for dessert
Once cooled, cut two pieces the same size so one can go on top of other one (for house bit) then make the left over bit into a roof shape (doesn,t need to be too exact as it will get covered with icing and finger biscuits)
A birthday wouldn't be a birthdaywithout a cake so today I've been making one for Sam, he specifically asked for caramel crunch chocolatefingers and no vegetables
My daughter absolutely loved her pre-birthdaycake ( we had a family party a few weeks prior to he actual birthday), I was expecting her to want a barbie or ballet cake but she loves the vanilla cakeswith fruit and a little chocolate
I was going to use a recipe for chocolate buttermilk cake from Tea With Bea (recipes from Bea's of Bloomsbury) but the carton of buttermilk I bought split on the way home so I ended up with a carrier bag full of buttermilk which had to go in the bin
This would probably work just as well with a chocolatecake, but for some strange reason, my children don't like chocolatecake, so I used a normal sponge cake recipe
Whoever came up with this idea was probably trying to save money by using chocolatefingers round the outside as chocolate cigarillos are usually used for this kind of cake, but these are very expensive and prone to breaking easily too
Surround the cakewith the chocolatefingers, gently pressing them into the ganache. My oven rises cakes very unevenly, so I grab a chocolate finger biscuit as a height guide for the finished piece and saw my cake horizontally about a cm below the height of a chocolate finger
