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Arguably rock and roll’s most famous piece of patisserie, the garish cake on the front of The Rolling Stones’ Let It Bleed album was baked by a young Delia Smith. At the time, August 1969, the album was destined to be called Automatic Changer and designer Robert Brownjohn was given a budget of £1,000 to produce the sleeve. Delia Smith, mean-while, had just begun a column in the Daily Mirror and was a jobbing freelance home economist working for a food photographer.

‘One day they said they wanted a cake for a Rolling Stones record cover,’ she said later. ‘It was just another job at the time. They wanted it to be very over the top and as gaudy as I could make it.’ The confection, which sat upon a can of film, a tyre and a clock face, is a glacé-cherried paean to gaudiness, making it one she made earlier which has outlived all others.