If you like peanut butter and chocolate, this recipe is for you!

Princess Odette decorated her three layer cake with chocolate, toffee popcorn and salted pretzels, but you can use any of your favorite sweet treats or candy!

• 225ml rapeseed oil, plus extra for tins

• 4 tbsp cocoa powder

• 250g self-raising flour

• 225g caster sugar

• 1 ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

• 3 tbsp golden syrup

• 3 large eggs, beaten

• 225ml milk

• 200g dark chocolate, chopped

• Pretzel pieces

• 2 tbsp chocolate chips

• 2 tbsp honeycomb pieces

• 250g salted butter

• 65g dark chocolate

• 500g icing sugar

• 1-2 tbsp cocoa powder

• 45g smooth peanut butter

• 100g dark chocolate, chopped finely

• 200ml double cream

• Toffee Popcorn

• Pretzel pieces

• Chocolate chunks

• Candy

• Honeycomb Pieces

• STEP 1

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.

2. Oil and line the base of three sandwich tins (19cm).

3. Add the cocoa powder, flour, bicarb and sugar to a bowl. 

4. Mix the dry ingredients well.

5. Make a well in the centre of the dry mix and beat in the eggs, oil, syrup, eggs and milk with an electric whisk until smooth.

6. Carefully divide the mix between the three tins.

7. Bake for 25-30 mins until risen and firm.

8. Allow the cakes to cool for 10 minutes before allowing them to cool completely outside of the tins on a cooling rack.

9. Whilst the cake cools, you can starr on the bark. Carefully melt the chocolate over a pan of boiling water.

10. Once melted, spoon the chocolate onto a parchment-lined baking tray.

11. Smooth over with a spatula to make a thin layer of chocolate (approx. 35cm x 20cm).

12. Before it hardens, sprinkle the chocolate chips, pretzel and honeycomb onto the chocolate sheet.

13. Chill the chocolate until solid.

14. Once solid, take the bark from the fridge and allow it to reach room temperature for a couple of minutes.

15. Carefully use a knife to cut the bark into shards. Keep the shards in the fridge until you decorate the cake.

16. Now move to the icing and melt the chocolate completely before taking it off the heat to cool for a few minutes.

17. Whilst the melted chocolate cools, beat the butter, icing sugar and 1 tbsp boiling water with a whisk. Keep whisking until the icing becomes pale and fluffy. 

18. Spoon out a third of the mix into a separate bowl and stir in the peanut butter. 

19. Whisk the melted chocolate into the remainder of the icing, then beat in the cocoa for a more chocolatey-coloured icing.

20. Next, sandwich the three cakes together with the peanut butter icing.

21. Using half the chocolate icing, coat the sides and top of the cake and fill in the edges between the layers. Scrape off any excess icing and keep it to one side.

22. Chill the cake for 20 mins.

23. Take the remaining chocolate icing and spread it over the lightly chilled cake. Make sure to smooth the sides and top for a neat finish.

24. Chill the cake for a further 20 mins.

25. For the ganache, heat the cream in a small pan until it starts to steam.

26. Tip the dark chocolate into a bowl and carefully pour over the cream.

27. Mix well until shiny and smooth.

28. Put the icing into a piping bag and allow to cool naturally for a few mins.

29. Carefully, pipe the ganache on top of the cake around the edge, allowing some to drip down neatly. Do this all the way round the cake before filling in the centre of the top of the cake with more ganache. 

30. Smooth the top with a knife.

31. Chill the cake for 1 hr to allow the ganache to set.

32. Next, press the bark shards into the cake.

33. Add as much of candy, popcorn and chocolate onto the cake around the shards.

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Wooden Spoons

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1. Get your wooden spoons together and on the handle of each spoon, write the name of one of your family members.

2. On the spoon part, use pens, sequins and any other materials to make your own family out of wooden spoons!

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• Use yarn or string for hair.

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