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Cake for Pudsey

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  • What kind of cake does Miss Trunchbull make Bruce Bogtrotter eat in Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda’?
    chocolate cake
  • In baking, what is a ‘soggy bottom’?
    when the pastry on the base of your tart or pie is not fully cooked
  • Which region of the UK do Eccles cakes come from?
    Lancashire
  • A piece of which cake is said to show you who you will marry in your dreams if it is placed under your pillow?
    fruit cake
  • What ingredients are used to make buttercream?
    butter and icing sugar
  • Which cake gets its name from the French word for a flash of lightning?
    éclair (so named because it is eaten ‘in a flash’!)
  • Which of these cakes does not originate in America?
    Chelsea bun
  • How many cupcakes did Patrick Bertoletti eat in six minutes in 2012 to break the world record?
    72
  • Where do cupcakes get their name from?
    They were originally baked in cups.
  • What name is given to a sponge cake with jam and cream in the middle that is named after a British monarch?
    Victoria sponge
  • What is the Guinness World Record for the tallest cake?
    33m
  • This cake has squares of pink and yellow sponge and is covered in marzipan. What is its name?
    Battenberg
  • Which famous French royal supposedly said, “Let them eat cake!” when she found out the French people had no bread?
    Marie Antoinette
  • When are mince pies traditionally eaten?
    Christmas