Jamie’s Chocolate Cake with nuts and biscuits

Recipes for 8-10

Ingredients:
200gr digestive biscuits
120gr whole pecans, roughly chopped
120gr pistachio nuts, peeled
10 glacé red cherries
2 ready-made meringue nests (regular size), smashed up
140gr unsalted butter
1 tablespoon golden syrup, or honey
200gr good-quality dark chocolate (70%), broken into pieces

Preparation:

Lemon Cake

Recipe for 6-8

Ingredients:
225gr. softened butter
225gr. caster sugar
4 medium eggs, lightly beaten
200gr. self-raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
50gr. ground almonds
The zest from 3 lemons (reserve 1/2 teaspoon for the icing)
The juice from 2 lemons
icing sugar (enough to make a runny icing for the cake)

Preparation: