You’d be astonished at how many people land on this blog after Googling “coach cakes”. I guess they’re looking for a recipe to honour their favourite sports professional. And they probably then go away disappointed, because the only real post on the subject is this one relating the theory (so far only proposed by me) that cake can be a useful tool in personal development.
But actually I do have a sideline in cakery. And today, in between two coaching sessions, one and a half blog posts, writing a feature, 1000 words of a book, two loads of washing, a flurry of emails and a ton of phone calls, I made a cake.
It is Son of Mine’s 8th birthday, and he designed this amazing six layered cake beast:
Those layers in full (from the top)
- Maltesers
- Chocolate sponge
- Fudge pieces
- Vanilla sponge
- Marshmallows
- Chocolate sponge
The layers were glued together with chocolate butter icing, so if you were counting that as a layer also, that would make it a nine layer cake. Which would clearly be ridiculous.
Happy Birthday Son of Mine. A coach cake just for you.