Courses include a baking day, where participants learn to make lime and Italian meringue sponges, chocolate mocha cake, and shortbreads with raspberry jam filling.
New photographs of the couple's gluten-free cake from La Tulipe Desserts in Mount Kisco, N.Y., show it to be a four-foot tower of vanilla sponge and chocolate mousse, with hundreds of sugar flowers cascading from its nine tiers.
I use my own recipes – one for a fruitcake handed down from my nana, a classic vanilla sponge, a chocolate, a lemon, a coconut and lime, an apple and blackberry..
Gelato Mio, in London's Holland Park, describe their offering as "Two layers of your favourite gelato, laid between delicate layers of sponge or chocolate cake and topped by the creativity of our gelato chef!" There can be no hanging around with this dessert, however, as it needs to be eaten within 10 minutes of it coming out of the freezer.
The Lawrance apart-hotel in Harrogate, has studio apartments from £95 (thelawrance.com) The Cookery School (thecookeryschool.org) in the Merchant city area of Glasgow offers a huge number of classes, including a gluten-free baking and breadmaking day – herb loaf, Victoria sponge and chocolate muffins are among the dishes and deserts on the menu.
You could just buy a white or yellow sponge (NO chocolate or fudge) but that would be boring!
You can also persuade your mom to bake her signature (chocolate, crumble, sponge, anything) cake for school!
On offer at the one-night-only event will be suppurating acid wounds and severed arms confected entirely from Victoria sponge, babies' heads set in chocolate, and "vomit" cocktails.
Choose your layers of rich sponge cake (the chocolate and raspberry and chocolate and baileys flavours are particularly divine).
The description will tell you it's a "rich moist red chocolate sponge, layered with blended hazelnut and passion fruit cream finished with sponge crumbs".
