Leave the cake plain or decorate with the chopped peanuts or as your heart desires. You could just use 2 x 20cm/8in sandwich tins instead of 4 ultra-shallow tins to make a 2-tiered cake.

Spoon the mixture into the tin and bake for about 1½-2 hours, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin, then carefully remove from the tin. For the 25cm/10in cake ...