Andrew used his Gran’s recipe for a classic light chocolate cake and topped it with chocolate icing, chocolate shards, hazelnuts and raspberries for a spectacular finish fit for a birthday.

It doesn’t have to look perfect as the whole cake will soon be covered with chocolate shards and fruit. To decorate, stick a shard, pointed side up and nicest side out, against the side of the ...

For the dessert, the batter is piped into three cake layers, rather than into long, slender ladyfinger shapes. The recipe calls for two types of white chocolate. The first, used in the mousse ...