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Dec. 16th, 2012 10:12 pmScores of my friends have been producing children this year, one of whom had her little girl today. I meanwhile in my little lair have spent most of the evening waiting like an impatient father-to-be to see my creation. ( A Cake (picture under the cut) )
It's all Nigel Slater's programme's fault, and quite franky I should have been doing ten million other jobs than baking but I did doctoring a recipe I found to reflect what ingredients we actually had in the house, and giving it a bit of a Christmassy twist. It is not the best cake I've made- most of the fruit has sunk to the bottom and it cooked much quicker around the outside than in the middle, but it is at least moist and relatively okay. The licks were yummy too which is a bonus- most cakes I've made that involve fruit and mixed spice tend to be the dark kind which use dark sugars like muscovado, which I don't actually like the licks of as much. I am marginally regretting not going with my first instinct and making scrambled egg on toast instead but oh well, live and learn.
I have written all but work's cards and most of them (not all) have been posted. Almost (but not all) of my parcels are ready to be sent out in the morning (of the two remaining one is just awkwardly large and a funny shape and the other one I haven't quite finished making part of it, or more to the point mother hasn't as it's at the point now where we don't have time for my ineptitude). Plenty of presents still to wrap though!
Busybusybusy
It's all Nigel Slater's programme's fault, and quite franky I should have been doing ten million other jobs than baking but I did doctoring a recipe I found to reflect what ingredients we actually had in the house, and giving it a bit of a Christmassy twist. It is not the best cake I've made- most of the fruit has sunk to the bottom and it cooked much quicker around the outside than in the middle, but it is at least moist and relatively okay. The licks were yummy too which is a bonus- most cakes I've made that involve fruit and mixed spice tend to be the dark kind which use dark sugars like muscovado, which I don't actually like the licks of as much. I am marginally regretting not going with my first instinct and making scrambled egg on toast instead but oh well, live and learn.
I have written all but work's cards and most of them (not all) have been posted. Almost (but not all) of my parcels are ready to be sent out in the morning (of the two remaining one is just awkwardly large and a funny shape and the other one I haven't quite finished making part of it, or more to the point mother hasn't as it's at the point now where we don't have time for my ineptitude). Plenty of presents still to wrap though!
Busybusybusy
