Equipment and preparation: For this recipe you’ll need 25cm/10in, 22cm/8½in, 18cm/7in, 15cm/6in and 10cm/4in round cake tins and respective thin cake boards. To assemble the cakes, you’ll ...

Instead of round and stacked cake layers ... “They’re much easier to cut than a round or tiered cake,” affirms O’Shea. “You just follow a basic grid to get even-sized pieces.