Chocolate Finger Birthday Cake

Okay, so last week it was my friend Lauren's birthday. As I have the 'cake maker' reputation amongst my friends I felt obliged to come up with a tasty and unique idea for Lauren's birthday cake. After all, it was the girl's birthday who I played with at nursery and have basically grown up with since I was a toddler. 

As I knew I'd be busy in the week of Lauren's birthday, I wanted to do a cake that was simple yet effective.

I was searching on the web for some inspiration when I came across cakes like these.

I loved the style of these cakes, so simple yet they looked great!


Whenever I make a cake I want to make it my own so I tried to only use these cakes as a very rough guideline.
 I mean, Kit Kats are great but no one can deny how moreish chocolate fingers are! So, as you've probably guessed on my cake, I used Cadbury's chocolate fingers.



When making this cake, I wanted to make sure Lauren had some input into it (not too much though of course, I didn't want to ruin the surprise!) so  that she'd definitely like it.
I asked her if she'd prefer vanilla or chocolate sponge and jokingly she said half and half. I don't think she was expecting me to take her seriously but I accepted this challenge and made one layer chocolate and the other vanilla. She got a right surprise when she cut into it!


I found that this cake was very easy to make, probably the simplest I've done! In this cake there is no cutting pieces out to a pattern or fondant icing or fancy piping involved. The hardest part of the whole cake was probably completely spreading the cake with a thin layer of butter cream to put the chocolate fingers on with! easy peasy lemon squeezy!



It took me some time to decide what I was going to cover the top of the cake with. I wanted it tot be something colourful that I could literally just pour over the top of the cake. I considered Smarties but decided that these weren't bright enough so I settled with Skittles in the end. That would be the one thing I would change if I made this cake again however. The Skittles looked fantastic but the chewy fruitiness of them didn't really go that well with butter cream and sponge cake! (I'd go with M&M's next time!)
Anyway I saw several similar cakes to mine on the Internet that had been finished off with ribbon so I did the same with a nice bright green colour. This really sets off the end product.

Luckily for you guys, I managed to find a much better picture of the cake than the one I took on my blackberry. Now you can see how colourful this cake really was!