The pictures aren’t that pretty, but the cake most certainly was, in the flesh. This is Annabel Langbein’s Strawberry Cloud Cake from The Free Range Cook, and I can highly recommend it as a dessert that looks quite fantastic with really very little effort. I seem to be cooking quite a bit from Annabel Langbein’s recipes of late, one reason being always manages to highlight seasonal produce without too much fuss involved. This cake, which is kind of a big uncooked meringue I suppose, uses a punnet of strawberries for a real fruity hit, and the desiccated coconut in the biscuit base adds a bit of a tropical note.

We enjoyed it, along with a whole lot of other delicious dishes friends had made, at a Guyfawkes pot luck over the weekend. My hostess, the queen of hostesses, Jess also made some adorable marbled meringues which I will have to get the recipe for to post here. Needless to say the feral fireworks-mad children discovered the meringues before the adults did, so that was that.