Lazy cake is the best cake

A thank you and a confession

Lazy cake sprinkled with coconut, coconut balls, and chai tea at Braille Festival Lithuania.

I am not a baker. But I do enjoy being praised by others for providing them with naughty treats that I have made. My chocolate fridge cake has been winning the crowds since the days that I would be bowling around in school uniform, showing off by gifting friends with chocolaty treats.

Fridge cake is made by melting chocolate, butter and golden syrup and stirring in crushed-up biscuits, fruits, nuts, or whatever you like. Besides being incredibly sustaining and calorie-laden, it doesn't need to be baked in the oven, just chilled in the fridge, and it keeps for AGES. It looks and tastes a ridiculous amount more impressive than it is.

I was recently in Lithuania and discovered that they make fridge cakes too. But they call it Tinginys in Lithuania, translating to (lazy cake). Learning this was a reality check that provoked praise, not criticism. Lazy cake may be lazy, but it remains the best cake—an act of almost labourless indulgence. I have recently stopped drinking alcohol, and sweet treats are the perfect vice of choice to fill that void until I can become the stoic princess I may become. Thank you, lazy cake.

Lazy cake, however lazy you are to make, you are helpful in a time of need. I'll continue to whip you up impromptu to serve with coffee at work. And you will continue to create a long line of people requesting the recipe to recreate you.

Lazy cake, I'll never stop making you, and from now on, I will be brave enough to call you lazy cake, not fridge cake. We can be honest about the total lack of skills to make you. You will remain just as delicious, and the lack of effort to make you even more of a treat.