During some recent summer community fun over on Sidepodcast, the challenge arose to bake something F1 related. Given the wealth of choice of recipes available to me, and a limited amount of time, I went for something I’ve already made in the hopes I could do it better. A long while back, I baked an F1Minute cake, to celebrate a podcasting anniversary. It went down very well, although it was my first attempt at icing something and I went a little over the top in terms of thickness.

I felt like doing a bit of baking and found this recipe for a classic Victoria Sponge. I know I said I had sworn off the BBC’s GoodFood site, but there are such good finds on there, I can’t help myself. Anyway, the thing I particularly love about making a sponge is that you just throw all the ingredients in together and mix it up. Mix, mix, mix. I even bought my first set of cake tins for this.

On Friday of last week, the Cutest Food blog posted a panda cake. It just missed out last week, so I saved it up for this week. It is cute, although the bottom one looks a bit like a pair of binoculars.

Not Spongebob, obviously. The person who bought me Spongebob.