Christmas Cake Chocolate Raspberry Cream Inspired be The Great British Baking Show

We were tasked with making a desert item for Christmas Day dinner at our pastors house with 8 total guests, so we discussed options & decides on a one off by combining ideas we both learned watching many episodes of the Great British Baking Show. Butter cream frosting replaced a custard that did not set correctly in the fridge as were forced to "Pivot" during the making of this delicious cake. We saved the custard in the fridge & baked it in the oven the next day, adding shredded coconut producing something like a coconut mochi crossed with a vanilla custard, that Meg & I found most delicious, such that nothing went to waste. We had enough cake that we left some behind at the pastors house so he could share with his neighbors :)

[@artfullymeg]

The day of pivoting lol it was fun overall :) Didn't expect it to take so long lol

[@AaronSchwarz42]

Mostly, as in the ingredients were produced by other people & God, we just worked them together with love, sweat & tears lol :) We do not normally make anything like this, so are very inexperienced, & its been at least 7 years since we baked a cake from scratch like this, since we normally avoid baked goods or anything sugary or high glycemic to avoid stressing our endocrine system since Meg requires insulin & I did a lot of hard things in terms of personal changes to reverse Type 2 diabetes from eating things like this in essence 10+ years ago with some regularity completely unaware that doing so could create diabetes type 2 even though my body mass or weight was about the same //