Celebrity cake maker, Mich Turner, from the Little Venice Cake Company, had a vital hand in making Heston's cake spurt. Hannah Williams gets a lesson in cake chemistry
Ejaculating – no! We tend to leave the explosions to the pyrotechnics – patisserie fireworks and sparklers.
All food science is chemistry and in chemistry you have chemical reactions. I have worked with a vinegar cake in the past – this was popular during the war when eggs were rationed. By combining bicarbonate of soda with vinegar the chemical reaction creates carbon dioxide with quite dramatic results. The cake rises as it bakes but there is no vinegar taste evident at the end. The challenge comes with creating an ejaculation where the cake is edible, tasty and there is no evidence of how it is executed as the cake is eaten.
Cakes that were highly aerated such as creamed cakes (sponge) or open textured such as a boiled cake (carrot cake with sunflower oil) were unsuitable as when the cake ejaculated the custard was travelling horizontally through the air bubbles, rather than vertically through the bore hole we created in the cake. Dense chocolate cake with little aeration (as the cake had little flour and was not required to rise) had a close texture and, being oil based, allowed the custard to travel up and out without oozing out of the sides.
I love all cakes so this to me would be added excitement value!
More for hen nights maybe!
We created a cake in the shape of a sauna, complete with naked his and her figurines, for Emma Thompson! We have also created a pantomime-themed cake with a stage, red velvet iced curtains and characters, a three foot round glitter ball cake for Strictly Come Dancing and a two foot high chocolate Buddha cake.
Couture cakes taking inspiration from fashion – muted tonal colours – ivory, topaz, white and pale gold with plenty of gilded sugar pearls. It is a real celebration of the design of the cake.
We are seeing less in the way of oversized, ostentatious cakes and much more of a focus on the refined, intricate craftsmanship of a breathtaking flawless designer creation.
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