Frozen Spring

I invented this only a few days ago, when I decided to add dessert to a dinner menu, pretty much on the spur of the moment. This is a cheat's dessert, that requires no cooking. All it requires is a decent sense of flavor and some manual dexterity.The end result is a sweet and tangy medley of cake, frozen yogurt and chocolate, which on first glance will not be discernible in the slightest. When first served, it will look just like the picture below. But when you cut into it, it will be another matter altogether!

To prepare it for 5-6 people all you need is:

1. A round ceramic dish
2. A roll of cling film
3. The nicest lemon sponge cake you can buy. 500 gms should do. 
4. 500 ml Frozen yogurt with berries - I like the low fat variety by London Dairy
5. Chocolate nutties - I go for Cadbury

And to put it together, here's what you need to do. 

1. Carefully layer the inside of the ceramic dish with cling film. You should have no air bubbles and there should be at least 2 inches of excess cling film that you can stick to the outer surface of the dish, so it holds
2. Keep the frozen yogurt out; we need it to thaw a bit
3. Carefully cut slices of the lemon sponge cake and press place them side by side in the dish so that the entire surface is covered. Use crumbled slices to fill in the gaps wherever needed. This layer should be about a centimeter thick. You should not be seeing any gaps at all.
4. Take about 1/3 of the frozen yogurt, which should have softened a bit by now and drop it into the center of the dish. It should be sitting in a little pile at the bottom of the dish over the layer of cake. Spread it just a little bit with a spatula so that it forms a relatively smooth layer. Don't try and spread it over the entire layer of cake, 
5. Now add some more cake so that you cover up the yogurt completely Let this layer be about 1.5 cm thick. Into this press some chocolate nutties. 
6. Now add the remaining yogurt and spread to form another smooth layer
7. Add the remaining cake to cover up the yogurt completely. By this time you should have filled up the bowl. Only cake should be visible. 
8. Put a layer of cling film over the mouth of the bowl and stick it in the freezer for 45 minutes at least.

When it is time to serve, take the dish out of the freezer, remove the cling film covering the mouth of the dish and invert it over a serving plate. Hold it a little above the plate, loosen the cling wrap from the outer surface of the dish and tug on it gently till you hear the 'plonk' of your frozen dessert on the serving plate. Lift and set the dish aside and remove the cling wrap from the dessert. You should be looking at a sight similar to the picture above. 

Let it sit for 5 minutes so that it thaws just a little. Then take it to the table and start cutting out slices,  which should look a bit like this:

When you bite into it, you should experience the sourness of the berry yogurt, waltzing with the mildness of the lemon cake, periodically surprised by the crunch and sweetness of a chocolate nutty or two. Yum yum yum!!!

And just like that, "Fozen Spring" is served! 

Bon appetit!