This is another family favourite pudding, which I made up myself and is probably the easiest to make. The cake recipe was from Delia Smiths cookery book and I find it the most successful, always with a wonderful turn out. This is a wonderful pudding for a family get together! Hopefully you will enjoy reading this recipe and it inspires you to try it out…
Ingredients:
Half a cake-
3oz self raising flour
1/2 tsp of baking powder
3oz margarine
3oz caster sugar
1 1/2 large eggs
2 drops of vanilla essence
Extras-
2 1/2 bars of milk chocolate
200ml of double cream
summer berries (strawberries, blueberries and raspberries)
a little dark and white chocolate
extra coconut (optional)
Method:
Firstly pre heat the oven at 150 degres Celsius fan and line a circular cake tin (roughly 20cm diameter) with a baking sheet and set aside for later. Sift the flour and baking powder and then add all the other ingredients to make the cake mixture, then whisk until smooth. Fill the one cake tin with the mixture and put in the oven middle shelf for 25 minutes and then remove from tin and leave to cool on a cooling rack.
Then melt the milk chocolate and on a baking sheet on a tray spread the chocolate in eight squares roughly 7cm x 7cm and sprinkle coconut garnish if you would like and leave in freezer until plating up time. Next make another four melted chocolate sheets random shapes with strips of all the different chocolate types and leave in freezer. Then whip the double cream until it makes peaks, and then cut four circles (with a cutter) into your cake sponge and spread the cream on top. And add little chopped strawberries and blueberries on the cream and add the hardened multi flavoured chocolate sheet. Then make a sandwich with two of the plain coconut and milk chocolate sheets with a few mini cream dollops and raspberries for each person.
Lastly if you would you can make a very simple but lovely fruit coolie by blending strawberries, blueberries and raspberries and adding a wee sugar and add a little swirl on the plate to top it off! Then you’re ready to serve up and enjoy eating to your hearts content…
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