Petal's Birthday Cake: The gluten-free, 'choc-tastic' cake Jamie Oliver made for his daughter

A sweet for celebrating, from Keep Calm and Keep Cooking.

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Birthdays are always worth celebrating, whatever the circumstances. The world might be a challenging place right now, but that doesn’t mean we can’t pause to focus on the moments that matter, making happy memories for years to come. Whatever it is you’re celebrating, I hope this choc-tastic cake will serve you well. It certainly puts a big smile on all my lot’s faces. - Jamie Oliver

Tips:

Use a sandwich bag in place of a piping bag if you want to get fancy with your decorations. Simply snip the corner off and you’re away.

Easy swaps:

When it comes to sugar, use what you’ve got — as long as you’re adding 200 g, you’ll be fine. I actually made this for Petal using 130 g golden caster and 70 g icing sugar, because that’s what we had.

We love chocolate! 70% cocoa is always a good bet, but honestly, use whatever you can get your hands on.

I’ve gone for orange and vanilla to flavour the sponge here, but you could use rosewater, cardamom, orange blossom water — have fun with it.

If you don’t need to use gluten-free flour, by all means use regular self-raising.