If I were a good, devoted christian, church goer and was used to doing as I’m told, I’d have made a white cake, with white icing, filled with something white and finished with white ribbon. I’m none of the above and I hate doing as I’m told as a general rule, so I’ve made Izzie a cake that I fancied, she wasn’t having any on this occasion anyway. 🙂

I baked a cocoa sponge, a very nice one, I must modestly say, in a christian manner. Whipped 4 egg whites with roughly 8 tbps of sugar, added the egg yolks one by one, then 2 tbsps of plain flour, 2 of cocoa, 1 of potato flour and a touch of baking powder. That baked for about 30 mins on 180 degrees. When cooled, it got sliced in 3 layers. For the filling I used a bagged Delecta product with Advocaat flavour, bought it a while ago and intended to use for a while. Surprisingly nice product, I must say, although I would not win The Great British Bake Off with it, that’s for sure. Some fresh raspberries went in as well, in order to brake the sweetness a notch and then a dusting of cocoa powder and some Maltesers for the top. The cake was eaten to the last slice. Well done. 🙂