Super Chocolate Cake, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

This is the rather dubious looking cake I baked for Clarkson’s birthday recently. It was based on a Waitrose recipe for Super Chocolate Cake and was generally successful. I changed the initial recipe by adding copious amounts of white chocolate chips and chunks of dairy milk. I also iced it with lemon flavoured icing. Red for the top, orange for the middle. The main problem with the resulting cake was that it ended up being a little stodgy. I put this down to my method of throwing all the ingredients in a bowl and mixing them all up rather than the careful steps described in the recipe of folding, whisking and flufferising.
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Content Management System Cake, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

This weekend Clarkson and I decided to build a cake based on the Google Analytics dashboard. It was a fairly complex construction that ended up taking a lot longer than I expected. It was based around a Waitrose Lemon Drizzle cake recipe, with lemon butter icing filling. I actually had to bake three separate cakes. One for each layer of the main body of the cake and another to use for the 3D elements on the top.
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Content good enough to eat should be managed properly

Content Management System Cake, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

In trying to document here all the various technology/craft related nuggets of productivity i have been responsible for over the years I have decided to release the Content Management System cake based on a custom build I was involved with at AOL. There are plenty of geeky impressive cakes around, and this one is certainly not one of them, but I did spend a while putting this together a couple of years ago. I am probably most proud of using skittles in the top right-hand corner as colour-picker icons. It was the inspiration behind the whole thing really.

I wasn’t sure about actually baking the cakes themselves that make up the finished product, since I wanted everyone to actually eat it. I used blocks of iced madeira cake from Tesco and then added the various sugary accoutrements.

I am planning on making an executive dashboard later this year and hoping it will be a little more impressive than this. Its quite difficult to fill a cake of this size with useful content when all you have to contend with is chocolate drops, sugar twirls and the odd cola bottle.