So I made it up as I went along. The original cake required chocolate meatballs with chopped nuts. The recipe seemed a bit complicated for me, so I made the meatballs out of Rice Krispies and chocolate. I could have made them a little smaller or the cake a little bigger to get the proportions right.
The cake is a basic Delia Smith Victoria Sponge Cake and the icing is a softish butter icing that I forced out of an icing bag. The biggest hole I had in the piping set was vermicelli sized, so it was quite hard work. Try to get a spaghetti sized hole if you can, it will be much easier. The sauce is Mrs Beetons strawberry and gooseberry jam. I warmed it up so that it would pour more easily, but this did kind of melt the icing in a couple of places. It also made it very sweet.
Anyway, she was suitably surprised – as was everyone else. You get a lot of impact for relatively little work. It is a little odd having something that looks savoury being so sweet, though!