Back in September it all began when Chris and I decided to make a cake for Andy's birthday. Firstly we trawled through cook books and websites in search of an easy birthday cake recipe. Armed with a simple sponge recipe we hit Sainsbury's to gather the ingredients and left soon after with....a packet mix and some premade buttercream chocolate icing. Somehow, in the process of browsing through the assortment of flour, eggs, sugar, vanilla essence etc we became convinced that there was too much risk involved in trying to bake our first cake from scratch as a birthday gift. There would be nothing worse than presenting the birthday boy with a mound of burned sponge covered in a runny chocolate puddle. Instead, we opted to cheat and made a super easy chocolate covered sponge with chocolate buttons that went down a treat.
What did we learn?
- You can give someone a cheat birthday cake and still provide them with a happy feeling of getting a homemade cake.
- You feel kind of immoral for not having crafted something you can truly be proud of.
- Baking a cheat cake, seeing the glee that can come with baking, and feeling bad that you didn't create it yoursef completely encouraged us to start from scratch next time.
Here is a photo of the yumminess with the birthday boy:
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