Let them eat cake!

Chocolate soldier cake & Pizza cake

Tanya's thoughts:
The soldier creation was chocolate sponge (with chocolate extract to make it REALLY chocolatey) sandwiched together with a chocolate *frosting and again swamped with it all over the cake, almost creating a chocolate moat around the cake. The cake was lovely and surprisingly not too heavy. Obviously I'd recommend the decoration for a young boy's birthday cake or in my case - a grown man's birthday cake :p
James's thoughts: .....

Tanya: James's can't talk right now, he's busy with his Fortress game clan :/






 

The pizza cake was plain sponge (cooked in a pizza pan (11ins), and was actually gluten free (yes the flour worked in this recipe)) with red *frosting (cream cheese, butter, icing sugar and red food paste), grated white chocolate (the cheese) then some fruit imitating pizza toppings. In our case we used 'pepperoni', 'olives', pieces of 'mozzarella'. Actually tasted really nice and quite light - the fruit made it feel light a light summer's cake. Presenting it in a Dominoes pizza box made it look the part and served it with a pizza cutter - great.
Jason's thoughts: "Needs moar garlic bread. No seriously, was enjoyable cake, different yet scrumptious. 8.5/10"
 











 

*Apologies for using the term 'frosting' I know it's American, but icing just conjures up a really thin silver spoon icing.

Toffee apple crumble

 











Tanya's thoughts:
Of course this had to be done for a fireworks night dinner! Eaten after a hearty cheesey chilli and the crumble was served with cream and as you can see from the photo - indoor sparklers. I think the excitement was too much as when the sparklers finished (after a very reluctant start) i felt extremely disappointed :p

This was a recipe found in a Brighton magazine about local food. you basically make a dark toffee sauce with dark muscavado sugar, butter and double cream which you pour over the slightly fried apples. Once cooked the sauce becomes a golden rich colour. The crumble mixture also has ground almonds which gave it a rich flavour (as if that was needed). Lovely and gooey.

James's thoughts: 
Very tasty but let down by sharp apples.