Eton Mess Poke Cake

This tastes like all the kids parties from youth. Which is nice.

6 hours cook

Hugh Woodward

Twisted: Unserious food tastes seriously good.

Ingredients

What you'll need:

x 2Betty Crocker vanilla sponge cake mix

85g strawberry jelly

400mlboiling water

600mldouble cream

100gicing sugar

250gstrawberries, quartered

50gcaster sugar

4meringues, shop bought

This is nostalgia fusion - poke cakes (cakes poked and then filled with jelly) and Eton Mess. American meets Britain, falls in love, they have a baby, it's a cake!

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C. Make the two boxes of cake mixture according to the instructions on the packet and pour them into a deep greased and lined rectangular baking tray. Bake for around 45 minutes to an hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Leave until completely cool.

Whisk the jelly with around half a pint of boiling water until the jelly has completely dissolved. Allow to cool until almost set.

Use a wooden spoon to poke (hence the name) a whole bunch of holes into the cake, almost all the way to the bottom. Pour the jelly into these holes, cover and chill for around 4 hours.

Whisk the cream with the icing sugar until it forms stiff peaks.

Toss the strawberries with the sugar.

Crush the meringues with your hands like a G.

Use these ingredients to decorate the cooled cake - whipped cream first, then strawberries, then broken meringue. Serve straight away.