But a lot of the hard work in making a tube chassis is taken care of with the cake tin design, and the result looks rather professional. We have something of a personal interest in single-ended ...

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 (fan 160C). Grease and line two 20cm/8in deep sandwich tins, one 15cm/6in cake tin and one 10cm/4in cake tin with baking parchment. For the chocolate cakes ...

Sandwich the two discs together so you have ... Once cool enough to handle remove the cake from the tin and place it onto a wire rack, peeling off the baking parchment. Allow it to cool completely.