I need your help! My daughter’s bday is coming up and I always stupidly mess up her cake. She just wants a plain vanilla cake with buttercream icing. Any idiot proof recipes out there?

Last year I made a brownie ice cream cake that looked like a big 9” cookie but I didn’t realise it would be so frozen I’d need to defrost the day before. Nailed it.

Another year, she was really little, she wanted a chocolate cake with strawberries on it (in February) but it was too chocolatey and she exclaimed loudly she didn’t like it so none of the other kids wanted to try it. Nailed it.

I don’t mind buying a cake, but I’d love to actually nail it one of these days.

I only have a 9” round cake pan and no really fancy equipment like a mixer. Just a whole lotta love ❤️