Transportable birthday cake with raspberries

Sounds delicious, Mamie - yum!

I have found a cake on the web which is a sponge with ground almonds and a layer of crushed amaretti biscuits and raspberries in it. It keeps a couple of days so should be good. We will have five hours of driving, plus the tunnel so I don't want to leave anything to do when I get there. DD can buy the cream and the candles!

A seven year old might not appreciate a pavlova with cream, if it doesn't look like her idea of a birthday cake. Sponge layers and raspberries thickened to a spreadable jam or compote can be assembled into a layer cake, covered in icing and decorated when you get there. She could help to decorate it, too.

Rasperry Summer Pudding - then it won't matter if the raspberries are gooey/soft.
No cooking and you've only got to transport the rasperries - easy-peasy.

I like the jelly and rum baba idea as OH has been wanting to make that since the first round of Bake Off. She would like the raspberry jelly as we made that together when she was here in the summer. Might have to substitute the rum though! I am not sure that she is that keen on meringue and I do need somewhere to stick the candles..

I am thinking that you could set the rasberries in a thicker than usual, made up raspberry jelly, transport in tupperware, chop up and pile in meringue/flan/rumbaba.

Ooh! I like butty's ideas! Our posts crossed, I think.

[mouth watering emoticon]

If you defrost the rasps beforehand, cook them a little, and thicken the juice with cornflour, would that help at all?

Thinking meringue in bubble wrap in the Chunnel.

Might work!

Meringue. Make layers in advance, pack between greasproof paper, put in tin.
Always assuming your grandaughter likes meringue. Open or layered Pavlova with the raspberries any other fruit she loves.
OR
Layered shortbead with lashings of cream and raspberries.
OR
Do individual knickerbocker glories.

Both more puddings than cakes - but hey - no real difference.

I love meringue / pavlova, but would it travel through the tunnel? I would have to defrost the raspberries too and I think they might sog...

Or a simple sponge (Victoria type) made in a rum baba tin like a huge doughnut, and then pile the raspberries and cream in the middle.

Meringue? A la pavlova? Always one of my faves when I was a child. Don't know how well meringue would travel though.