A delicious Mexican Fresh Fig cake for the perfect dessert.
I promise you can’t actually see, taste or smell the zucchini in this cake. Instead, the vegetable adds moisture and helps create a beautiful, classic chocolate cake that makes a perfect celebration centrepiece when loaded up with berries and slathered in the best icing ever.
This take on the classic Victoria sponge can be served with lashings of cream and jam of your choice as well as baked cherries.
The rich flavour of gingerbread is so inviting, and the combined aromas of the spices used in this cake make it a wonderful treat any time of year. I’ve included it in this chapter because I think serving it warmed with a rich caramel sauce makes the perfect winter dessert.
Not only a pleasure to look at, this gorgeous cake is wonderfully decadent without being too rich — and it’s actually not that difficult to make. If you want to make a three-layer cake, simply use smaller-sized tins, ideally 16–18cm.
