Now spoon the cake mix into the prepared tin, level off the top with the back of a spoon, then sprinkle over the remaining third of the cherries and poke them just under the surface with a teaspoon.
And each and every one of them brought a cake. A total of 613 cakes, to be exact. At Cake Picnic, there was but one cardinal rule: "No cake, no entry." Like a fever dream of cake goodness ...
Recipes for larger layer cakes mix and bake one layer at a time, so you can mix a manageable amount of batter and re-use a single large tin. The recipe uses UK medium eggs (approx 60g/2¼oz).
Then add just enough cold water to mix to a dough that leaves the bowl clean. Leave the pastry to rest in a polythene bag in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes, then roll half of it out as thinly as ...