James: Chocolate Treacle Cake

James Hough stepped up to the plate and hit a cake home run today with his spectacular Gary Rhodes inspired Chocolate Treacle Cake. The test of a good cake is whether there's any left by the end of the day - in this case it was all gone by 3pm. And people had started to eat the extra bits that James had baked in his practice cake baking session on Wednesday. A true success.

In fact such, a success that I couldn't get a decent picture of it. The empty plate is top left in the pic above, and left overs are in the little tupperware containter on the right.

James didn't bake the birthday cake (Happy Birthday John), M&S have to take credit for that.

Mat: Carrot Cake

Well Cake Friday started a little unexpectedly with Mat's carrot cake. Although not cooked specifically to recipe (twice as much flour added as should have been) the cake was well-received. No pictures of the cake on the blog as I didn't think about taking a picture of it. Suspiciously, although everyone said it was really good, there was quite a lot left over at the end of the day.