Idiot-proof birthday cake recipe?

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Hello all,

This is my first foray into 'Cakes and bakes' :)

I'm making a birthday cake (for an adult) for this weekend but I am a total novice. I can't remember ever having made a cake

Does anyone have a tasty yet easy recipe that even I could pull off?

I'm worried that whatever I produce will be inedible, help!

perfectly simple and great is this tried and tested recipe www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/10860/easy-vanilla-cake

chocolate is: www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4689/chocolate-cake you can use 20cm round tins for this and works well.

For a super rich ultimate chocolate cake this is the bees knees www.lindyscakes.co.uk/2011/02/02/lindys-chocolate-fudge-cake-recipe/

I would call myself a confident baker and these recipes are perfect for party cakes. Please dont bake night before - do 3 days in advance.

Wonderful Bacon! Thanks so much for replying :)

I'll have a look at the links now and will hopefully produce something that looks and tastes like cake

The party is Saturday so I'll make it on Wednesday. Thanks for that tip, I wouldn't have known...

wish me luck!

Bacon I just wanted to let you know I baked the ultimate choc fudge cake in the end and it was amazing!!! (if I do say so myself ). Very moist and it went down really well!

Buoyed by that, I saw a link on mumsnet somewhere to a courgette cake recipe which I made earlier in the week. I have a friend with her two little ones coming to stay today so have saved it for them - fingers crossed it's okay...

Thanks a million again :)