Nelsandro Farmhouse from The Great British Bake Off, served up delicious Christmas pops cake on Steph’s Packed Lunch.

The ingredients for the sponge are: 220g baking margarine, 220g caster sugar, 220g plain flour, 1tsp baking powder, 4 medium free-range eggs and 1tsp vanilla bean paste.

For the buttercream: 250g unsalted butter, 500g icing sugar, 1tsp vanilla bean paste, 2tbsp whole milk and Food colouring of choice.

For the chocolate coating: 500g milk or dark chocolate.

For the decoration: Cake pop sticks (or toothpicks), 100g raisins, 100g dried apricots, 1 small packet crushed hazelnuts, 1 small packet mixed nuts, 1 small tub chocolate shavings and 1 packet Christmas sprinkle.

See recipes from The Great British Bake Off in the book titled: The Great British Bake Off: Favourite Flavours: The official 2022 Great British Bake Off book available from Amazon now.