The pink cake.

Living in the suburbs we have a little garden (great for our kids to play in) and while I love gardening and worked for a B&Q garden center for several years my garden is a lot of function not frivolity. So we enjoy fresh herbs, blueberries, redcurrants, gooseberries, rhubarb, strawberries and of course raspberries! After a couple of weeks of great weather and a diligent water-er in the form of my husband we had a mountain of fruit this year. So rather than waste delicious fresh raspberries I decided to give Julie Richardson's "Pink cake" from her book Vintage cakes a whirl!
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Now this is not my recepie nor is it one I've adapted so I'm afraid I can't share it with you but I would encourage you to buy the book even if only for this cake!
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Raspberry and chocolate is such a classic combination, and this cake is just incredible!
<p>Flavorful delightful moist chocolate cake smothered in smooth fluffy swiss meringue buttercream its like a dream...... I don't know if I could have imagined a more fantastic combination.
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As I'm putting together this three tier creation I'm thinking we're never gonna manage to eat all this......... what have I done!
<p>Then comes the magic moment of "Jules, I've got to drop this back to mike....."
<p> My husband to my rescue! I can now take this cake visiting and share both the awesomeness and the calories! LOL!
<p>So my pink cake got all dressed up in raspberries and fresh cream with a few sprigs of mint and made 4 of us very happy over a cup of tea!