When he first saw this story, the auld yin could instantly picture the brainstorming session in Asda’s development kitchen: “Kids love cake. Kids love fried chicken. Kids love birthdays. What about a birthday cake that looks like a bucket of fried chicken?”
And so, it came to pass. A snip at only 12 quid, the Asda Birthday Bucket Cake features soft Madeira sponge layered with jam, covered with frosting, coated in a ‘speculoos’ biscuit crumb and topped with ‘nuggets’. Sadly, for ketchup fans, the ‘tomato sauce’ squirted all over the top of the brute is in fact a drizzle of raspberry jam.
The cake also has more red traffic lights than rush hour in downtown Tokyo, and a portion (there’s 20 per bucket) will supply you with 14% of your daily energy requirements. While it may not be underpinning the government’s anti-obesity strategy any time soon, the Birthday Bucket has proved popular on social media, with the canny shoppers of the Money Saver Online Facebook group hailing it variously as “amazing”, “the best of both worlds” and “clucking delicious”.
However, UTC willl leave the last word to group member Hannah Jane: “Looks good but bet it tastes like shite”.
Actually, he’ll leave the last word to anyone who knows what speculoos is, and didn’t have to look it up on to Google. Anyone?
