Fruit or Chocolate Cake for Mum's Birthday Help!

[Saffy]

Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache to sandwich the cakes together and on top. Strawberries and berries piled on top.

Chocolate and fruit.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Yes, I think it stems from never actually knowing what it was made of when I was a kid and being cruelly tricked into thinking it should be nice, because look at all that snowy peaked icing on top of it....and the rosy cheeked Santa figurine. Crushing disappointments at Christmas time over and over again.

See I don't like the icing - too sweet - so I used to do a roaring trade in swapping icing for marzipan at christmas

 

[Badgers]

How it going Badgers ? I have awoken from my night shift and in order to be good for the second one, I need to know you are getting on with it, with a photo of the cake....and it better be chocolate!

There is a fruit cake in the oven
The cheesecake base is in the fridge
The Nigella orange cake is about to start

 

[Mrs Miggins]

There is a fruit cake in the oven
The cheesecake base is in the fridge
The Nigella orange cake is about to start

Good work

 

[Badgers]

Good work

Three chances of success

Fruitcake pre-oven:

 

[kalidarkone]

There is a fruit cake in the oven
The cheesecake base is in the fridge
The Nigella orange cake is about to start

Sounds great and that you are going above and beyond! Good work x

 

[Badgers]

Fruit cake is out the oven

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Oooooh! Looks lovely. You're a good son Badgers

 

[Badgers]

Fruit cake has passed the taste test

 

[wayward bob]

Fruit cake has passed the taste test

you ate it? (((badgersmumsbirthday)))

 

[wtfftw]

Gosh. I would've just made the banana bread chocolatey.

 

[Badgers]

you ate it? (((badgersmumsbirthday)))

Tasted a sliver of the crust

 

[wayward bob]

tbh that would be all you'd want, with it being fruit cake

 

[Badgers]

Nigella Lawson Flourless Chocolate Orange Cake is in the oven. Not confident about this one at all

 

[Badgers]

Aqua's Cheesecake is halfway done now.

The 'chocolate/cheese' part is way more than the biscuit base and tin can hold but that will freeze for a future heart attack

 

[Badgers]

Just to update

aqua cheesecake was the winner on the day
Fruit cake went down okay.

The Nigella chocolate/orange/almond cake was okay for mother. A big hit with no carb diet neighbour who has not had any cake for months.