Breaking Bad Bundt Cake

Breaking Bad is one of my favourite TV shows ever. I don't mind admitting that I hated it at first, and insisted I would never watch it ever again! However, I soon came round and lost several weekends whilst we caught up. It's been off our screens for months, but this week it's finally back for the grand finale.

To celebrate, I decided to make a Breaking Bad Bundt. It had to be blue (of course) but I decided on a nice raspberry flavour, after a lengthy conversation with my friend Dave about ice pops and Slush Puppies. I used little blue sweets as a replacement for the crystal meth (I believe this is rather moreish and isn't great for the pegs...) and dyed everything in sight blue with gel food colours. I made my floating eyeball out of a jawbreaker, and added a layer of jam to make the cake moist and tasty.

I got all my decorations from my local sweet shop. The lady serving me sweetly asked 'is it for a little boy?', to which I cack-handedly explained that the sweets were supposed to look like crystal meth. I get the feeling she didn't wholly approve.

Show stills from AMC

The cake itself was very simple, and can of course be made without so much blue!

Ingredients:

• 225g butter
• 450g golden caster sugar
• 4 medium eggs
• 1 tsp lemon extract
• 350g plain flour
• 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 250ml raspberry yogurt 
• 5 tbsp raspberry jam
• To make it blue: Food colouring, icing sugar and sweets if desired.

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to gas 3/160 C
2. Grease and flour a regular sized bundt tin - 2.4l, 10 cup, 10 inch. 
3. Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
4. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. 
5. Add the lemon extract.
6. In a separate bowl, measure out the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt.
7. Pour the yogurt into a jug (add the food colouring at this stage if you're colouring the cake).
8. Sift in a third of the flour mix followed by half the yogurt. Repeat this until everything is combined. Don't over mix.
9. Give everything a quick mix on a low speed for about 10 seconds.
10. Pour 3/4 of the mix into the prepared tin. 
11. Dollop the jam on top of the mix and spread around, avoiding the sides. 
12. Cover with the rest of the mix.
13. Bake in the centre of the oven for about 1 hour 15 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. It should be shrinking from the sides of the tin slightly.
14. Leave the cake to cool for 10 minutes, then remove from the tin. 
15. Serve either plain or with a dredging of icing sugar. Or with lots of blue if you wish.

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