About a week ago Funsize got her hands on the Tesco magazine, and decided that she simply had to have the cake that was on the front cover. And so, for no particular reason, I found myself baking my second cake of the year. Once again, this was a job split across two days, and once again this was one that Funsize really wanted to help with... right up to the point where it came time to help.
The sponge part of the cake was nice and easy - it wasn't quite just a matter of throwing everything into a bowl and mixing, but not hugely far off. And the cake rose rather more successfully than the previous effort, which was nice!
The decorations on the second day were rather less fun - we don't currently have a cover for our mixing bowl, which meant that the kitchen was promptly dusted with icing sugar on every surface! Other than that, though, it wasn't too bad. That said, once again we were hampered by our cake tins being larger than recommended, which meant I didn't have enough covering for all the surfaces, and the raspberries were a little sparse also.
Still, it looked nice, and it tasted nice too. The sponge could perhaps have done with being cooked a little less, but that's a small tweak.
Would I make this again? Well... perhaps. It was good, and I was a little happier with it than the previous one, but on the other hand we make cakes so infrequently, and have so many recipes to try out...
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