Met up with friends for a bit of a cakefest last weekend.  This was my offering:

Looks tasty enough, right?  But this cake has a bit of an added surprise up its sleeve... spots!  Inspired by this recipe, but it's easy enough to do:

1. bake mini cupcakes with a lot of food colouring
2. attack with a melon baller to produce coloured cake balls
3. eat remaining cake scraps
4. make yet more cake batter
5. pour into cake tin, add balls, cook.
6. cover in icing and decorate with matching colours of M&Ms

Et voila!  You'll have to excuse the crappy cameraphone photo, but it got devoured rather quickly...

The cupcakes in the background of the first photo are another bit of experimentation... cheap ready made chocolate cake mix (urgh, I know....), mixed with cherry coke rather than eggs/water.  They actually weren't that bad!

tags: cooking