Semi-Naked Drippy Cake

My sons birthday was last week, and we had an afternoon tea on Sunday for family members.  He had a birthday party late last month with his friends from school, I blogged earlier about his ice-cream dessert table, and his request not to have a birthday cake then.

For his afternoon tea I wanted to make him a drippy cake after seeing all of the delicious semi-naked dripping cakes on Instagram, and topped it with his favourite lollies and chocolates.

He wanted a banana cake, so I made a small 6” white chocolate and banana mudcake and layered it with buttercream, fresh bananas and toffee sauce.  Decorating the top with the toffee shards, lollies and chocolates was the fun part.  I added Chocolate Fingers, Kitkats, Crunchie Bars, Maltesers, Jaffa’s, Chocolate Fish, Picnic Bars,  Cadbury Milk Chocolate and Whittaker’s Santé Bars.

The Chocolate Fish which is marshmallow covered in chocolate, and Jaffas are very Kiwi, and are a part of every kid's childhood.  When I was a kid a Chocolate Fish was a reward for doing a great job, or doing well at something. The term “I’ll give you a Chocolate fish if you do xxx for me” is still used.  Now you can also get small Chocolate Fish which are called Sprats, and along with Jaffas are quite often found on your saucer when you purchase a cup of coffee from a café.  Jaffas are the small red balls filled with chocolate and are orange flavoured.  I have fond childhood memories of going to the local picture theatre and buying a box of Jaffas to eat while watching the movie.  Way back then our picture theatre had wooden floors, and you would always hear people dropping their Jaffa’s on the floor, and hear them rolling down the steps.

Along with his cake I also made Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese icing, and topped with fresh strawberries.  I didn’t take any close-ups of the cupcakes as we had high humidity and temperatures, and the icing was not behaving.  I could have quite happily dived into the fridge with them to cool off.  We don’t normally get high temperatures and humidity, so our air-conditioning is opening up all of the windows and doors.

Mason loves Chocolate Brownies so I made him a batch, and iced with a chocolate cheesecake swirl, and topped with a fresh cherry.