Instant Special Occasion Cake:
So, it’s ‘blank’ thirty and you’ve just read your diary.
Horror of horrors, it’s your turn to have the girls over for coffee/afternoon tea/supper, and it gets worse……. it’s a birthday celebration!
OK, what to do? You have that copy of Cecelia Ahern’s latest, perfect for a re-gift, sorted.
But what about the cake?
Listen carefully, I will say this only once: CHEAT.
Go down to the local shop/garage/convenience store.
Grab the first jam sponge you see (round or swiss-roll will do), a tub of strawberries/raspberries/red currents (any flipping berry for crying out loud) and a carton of whipping cream.
Rush home, without killing anyone, and get to work.
What you need:
1 x bought light and bouncy sponge cake
1 x tub of fresh berries
1 x large carton of whipping cream
icing sugar for sprinkling
mint for decoration (or any non-poisonous greenery, but don’t let anyone eat it just in case……)
What you do:
Assemble as in the picture…….hurry, they’re coming……..base sponge……cream……berries……top sponge…….cream……berries…….icing sugar……..greenery….done
PHEW!
