Does this cake sound disgusting?

[Haliborange]

DH's birthday is this weekend and DD1 wants to make a cake.

The plan we have concocted together is:

-victoria sponge recipe but made with some cocoa powder so it is brown and vaguely chocolatey

• filling made of raspberry puree (or possibly some sort of cherry goo) mixed with whipped cream

-topping consisting of some sort of chocolate ganache

• lots of smarties on the top (DD is 4, this is compulsory).

We're going to make it tomorrow and eat it on Saturday, so my questions are does it sound vile and will it keep nicely with all that cream in the middle? I can keep it in the fridge until a few hours before it will be eaten (need to transport it to a friend's house where we are having lunch).

Sounds yum - you take out a tablespoon of floor for every tablespoon of cocoa powder you put in so the mixtured doesn't get too dry :)

For a cake mix useing three egs then 2 tbsps of cocoa should be plenty.

Hope this helps and let us know how the cake turns out.

it sounds divine

SOunds lovely!

Great, thanks.
I'll blame you lot if it turns out revolting.
Or if we all end up in a diabetic coma...

Sounds great!

I used to make a birthday cake which was a chocolate sponge with chocolate cream filling, covered with chocolate icing & decorated with Smarties.

Well it looks fantastic, and is hopefully not too sweet as the raspberry cream is quite tart and the ganache is fairly bitter. Things were a little touch and go when the ganache split, but I whisked a bit more cream in and it thankfully came together.
We'll see what it tastes like tomorrow (when the proof will, quite literally, be in the pud!).

How did it turn out?

Really really nice, not too sweet. I have never mixed fruit into cream for the filling before (I've used jam/buttercream and un-mixed cream and strawberries) but will be doing it a lot more from now on.

The only problem was I left the greaseproof on the bottom of one of the sponges so there was a bonus bit of paper with each slice. But it still tasted good!