I've Got MasterChef's Julie Goodwin's Celebration Cake in the Oven!

[Bathsheba]

I bought this months Womens' Weekly especially for Julie's recipes and am half way through my first one; her Celebration Cake. So far so good... but wow! it's going to be decadent! So far I've used over half a kilo of white chocolate!!! But it's the kind of cake that you don't have to spend ages creaming sugar and butter in this one you melt them together with the chocolate on the stove... then mix in 5 eggs (!) and then the flours. I bought Anchor's special cake flour for this recipe too.

And now it's in the oven! I'm using my heart shaped tins because they are the only ones I have exactly the same size (it's a layer cake). When I finish I'll take a piccy and link

Anyone else doing this recipe?

[Olive]

yum!! i'll be round later for afternoon tea!!

[Winter]

Yeah, Bath! Better pop the kettle on! My mouth is watering already!!!

[bon]

I have the Women's Weekly too, but I have to admit the recipe scared me a little lol!

[Bathsheba]

In the recipe it says to use the pulp of 12, that's TWELVE passionfruit for the icing. We'll I'm going to use tinned pulp... I don't think it will make that much difference... this cake is going to be expensive enough as it is!

[Bathsheba]

Ok they are out of the oven and cooled. They are great! They are the first cakes I have ever made (I think) that are perfectly FLAT on top! They aren't rounded on top (so putting the layers together is hard) or sunken (meaning you have to fill in with extra cream). I am very impressed! I'll ice tonight when they are totally cool.

[Bathsheba]

(double post)

[MamaPan]

sounds delicious! is it for a special occasion?

[ezymay]

Yummmmmmmmmmmm Sounds devine!!!!

[feeb]

Sounds amazing and YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!

[Janie]

Thanks for the invite Bath, what time is dessert?

Can't wait to hear how they turn out, I love baking! And I want to see pics woman!!!

[*Beema*]

My mouth is watering...... can't wait to see piccies!

[Cupcake]

Im glad its a big cake, i think youre going to have a mob at your door soon hehe. I want some!! (dont tell my diet )

[Bathsheba]

I'll take pics tomorrow after I've iced it... shame I can't add it to my BB gallery album (that's where i was putting all my cake photos)... I'll put it on my FaceBook page instead. I'm Bathsheba Smith if you want to be added so you can see.

No occasion... it's just been ages since I've baked a cake and when I saw that this one didn't involve creaming butter and sugar (I hate that bit because I don't have a good mixer) I thought I'd just give this one a go and consider it a trial run for when we do have a special occasion. The recipe is honestly not as hard as it sounds.

Oooh maybe I can offer this cake at the cross stitching group I'm thinking of starting! My family will clean this up like a plague of locusts... sorry girls... i'll have to make it again for friends