Spotty Pudsey cake

This eye-catching sandwich cake with lemon cream filling and spotted pattern is sure to raise money at a bake sale- or just enjoy it at home

Prep:20 mins
Cook:18 mins

Easy

Nutrition per serving

kcal 544
fat 30g
saturates 18g
carbs 52g
sugars 49g
fibre 1g
protein 5g
salt 0.6g

Ingredients

200g butter, softened
100g caster sugar
200g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 eggs, beaten
2 tbsp milk
140g hundreds and thousands (see tip, below)
icing sugar, for dusting
250g pack yellow fondant icing
4-5 tbsp raspberry jam
50g each of red, white, blue and green fondant icing
300ml double cream
140g lemon curd

Tip

Get a spotty effect on your sponge

To get the spotty effect, you won’t be able to use naturally dyed hundreds & thousands as the colour will bleach out during cooking. We used Wilton Rainbow Sprinkles available from Amazon.

Method

Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Grease 2 x 20cm sandwich tins and line the bases with baking parchment. Apart from the hundreds & thousands, beat all the cake ingredients together in a large bowl, using an electric whisk, until fully combined and smooth. Quickly but gently stir through the hundreds & thousands – don’t mix too much or the colour from them will bleed. Divide the mixture between the tins and bake for 15-18 mins, until risen and golden brown. Leave to cool a little in their tins before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
On a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar, roll out the yellow fondant and cut out a 20cm circle – use the loose base of a sandwich tin as a guide. Brush the top of one of the cakes with a little raspberry jam and pop the fondant circle on top. Roll out the coloured icings in turn and cut out small circles – you could use the wide end of a piping nozzle for this. Dot a small amount of jam under each circle and arrange on top of the yellow fondant.
To make the filling, tip the cream and lemon curd into a large bowl and whip by hand to a soft peak. Sandwich the cakes together with remaining raspberry jam, topped with a layer of lemon cream.