BBC Good Food

01 June 2009

Tested

"I made these three cakes for my son's wedding as the top three tiers of a four tier cake. All three cakes were excellent. Had I not already made a traditional cake for the bottom tier. I would have made the light fruit cake as it is delicious and I now have a neighbour who is addicted to it. I froze left over chocolate and lemon cake for my son and his wife to have on returning from their honeymoon and found that the chocolate cake almost seemed to improve with freezing. the lemon cake was also OK. Knowing that, I would make and freeze before the event in the future, including the filling, making them a lot easier to ice. For people have problems with the lemon syrup, I had no problems the syrup and the cake both have to be hot for absorbtion."