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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