Shortly after I made the Cookies and Cream birthday cake I had the opportunity to be in the audience for 'An Extra Slice'. If your unfamiliar with the programme, which I doubt unless your reading this from Mars, it's an extension of the Great British Bake Off, in where the most recently booted off contestant gets interviewed by Jo Brand and a celebrity panel talk about the programme. Members of the audience can also bring their bakes and some of these appear on the show.
As a member/organiser of the Clandestine Cake Club I was lucky enough to be invited by the production company to organise a group of members to bring to a filming! As a complete fan of the programme I was beyond excited. We were asked to come for the first week and the theme was 'cake', which obviously fitted us very well. I decided to make a reworked version of the Cookies and Cream cake. Because of rules regarding advertising and just incase they wanted to feature it I couldn't put Oreos on it, therefore I made my own, or should I say Bouchon Bakery's version of, they call them TKO's, it's a recipe I had wanted to try for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was a monster of a cake, and I was having kittens about transporting it on the train to London. I left it in the fridge overnight so the frosting could firm up and hold the biscuits in place. I gave a huge sigh of relief when I got to the studio and handed it over to the production team in one piece! It was pretty obvious that my cake was very ordinary compared to some others that where bought. When a lady unveiled her Tomato Soup Cake I knew it would feature. I was happy I chose this cake though, and it is slightly unusual as it has Trex in the icing, something you don't normally see. I'm really into these large layered cakes and this cake tastes delicious. I'm not going to lie though after a day in the sun, studio lights and a train journey home it wasn't looking quite that lovely. But it still tasted amazing and the builders liked it!
An unexpected bonus of making this cake was that as I had a load of blitzed Oreos left over from the filling I decided to see what they would be like in marshmallows. I added them into my usual Vanilla recipe. Well viola! Cookies and Cream Marshmallows!! Complete success. The kids went crazy for them.
I am constantly thinking of new recipes and have so many ideas swirling around in my head. At the moment I've been busy devising them for both a Passion Fruit Madeira cake and an Apple and Tonka bean Frangipane Tart, both inspired by challenges on the Great British Bake Off. I am so nearly happy with them and when I am I will share with you, so watch this space!
Passionfruit Madeira in the making
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