(Zebra cake recipe adapted from LorrainePascale, Fast, Fresh and Easy Food). The cake itself is an impressive looking hidden design of alternating layers of chocolate and peppermint sponge, covered in mint choc chip buttercream and topped with chocolate ganache and peppermint chocolate bark
Although LorrainePascale's recipes are well-known to be super easy, to me the trifle is more of an assemble job, perhaps next time I would make a more authentic trifle as I missed the jelly element
One evening, watching Lorriane Pascale doing her stuff in the kitchen this cake caught my eye, she named it the 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Zebra Cake' with vanilla and chocolatesponge layered to look like a tiger
Lex requested marble cake for his lunch box last week and I'd been meaning to try out a tiger cake following the recent craze for them created by LorrainePascale
This recipe for Victoria sponge is taken from LorrainePascale's 'Baking Made Easy'. When it comes to cakes, as much as I adore triple chocolate lusciousness from time to time, or the stunning aesthetic of a rainbow cake, I very often return, with much joy, to the good old sponge
My attempts at rolling up the sponge have been less than successful in the past, so I thought I'd follow LorrainePascale's advice and add a bit of water to the sponge mix
I finally decided on baking a rocky road cake from LorrainePascale's home cooking made easy. Although Ms Pascale describes the cake as "a very naughty rocky road cake", there was actually no pictures on how this cake should look
It reminded me of the Lime and White Chocolate Genoise that I made a couple of years ago, based on LorrainePascale's Mojito Genoise from Baking Made Easy
I did a bit of research, and decided to combine two different recipes – a courgette and lime sponge on the River Cottage website, and the delicious sounding sugar syrup used in LorrainePascale’s mojito cake, from her book Baking Made Easy
It reminded me of the Lime and White Chocolate Genoise that I made a couple of years ago, based on LorrainePascale's Mojito Genoise from Baking Made Easy
