Lakeland is pretty much at the top of the list when it comes to shopping for cooking equipment and those handy utensils that you never even realised you needed. Their Windermere flagship headquarters is a delight to visit. In a handy situation adjacent to the railway station and close to the particularly high quality Booths supermarket.

My local Canterbury store is pretty good too and Lakeland mail order service excellent www.lakeland.co.uk

My latest purchase is a victoria surprise cake set made by Silverwood www.alansilverwood.co.uk on the front page of the link you will see this with instructions. Basically it has an additional base which is raised leaving extra space for deep soft fruit and cream fillings.

There is a simple recipe that comes with the tin and here is the finished cake first whole and then sliced.