A Messy Beginning

Birthdays are always a good place to start. This is the cake we made my friend Lucy for her 17th birthday maaany years ago. We're pretty sure this is what made her stop eating sugar for the next few years...

It's layers of vanilla sponge of varying colours, with layers of sliced vanilla and jam swiss roll, chocolate swiss roll and jammy dodgers. We then smothered the whole thing in coloured lemon icing, sweets and silver balls. Getting this in the car and getting to her house (not far) was veeeery interesting. But it was a good party. And the proof is that the cake ended up like this:

Demolished.