Our great Christmas

Our great Christmas
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I’ve managed to pry Rhiannon off my PC in order to write a post 🙂

Just wanted to share my Christmas with you all. Hence this might be an incredibly tedious post. I’m just warning you. After all, I don’t want you sitting there reading (or in one case listening to Rupert) and getting all anticipatory (is that a real word?) and then suddenly… nothing. Like a big bad nothing. Like so much nothing that you find yourselves floundering in existentialism.

Anyway, Christmas Eve was frantic. Rhiannon had got herself this ambition to make a Christmas Tree cake. Naturally she got the idea off some mistress of the kitchen on YouTube. And naturally she refused to accept that she was only 11 years old whereas the aforesaid cook extraordinaire was quite a bit older and more experienced. I did spend an hour or so trying to talk her into something less… um… challenging. I got no where.

“Dad. You always say to stretch yourself,” she replied.

Damn my astonishing Dad wisdom!

“But…”

“Dad! You always tell me to be determined and never give up.”

And so I gave up. Gave up trying to change her mind.

This monstrous cake involved baking 4 butter cakes, crumbling one up and then remoulding it into a cone with icing. Then wrapping one cake in pink fondant to become the bottom layer. And subsequently icing, stacking and icing the other levels.

And this was where things became unstuck about 6 hours later at just gone 11pm. There was not enough icing. You heard me right – not enough icing. And we had no icing sugar or any other ingredients to expand our amount.

No! We needed to go shopping.

The only open store was

11 Comments


  1. Great cake! Glad you had a great Christmas. The weather seems to be playing all sorts of wicked games with us around the world. Hope you avoided any of its effects. New Year to come next, should we expect another culinary work?


    1. It was very tasty – and very rich. In regards to the weather we have been OK, albeit in Victoria the fires have raged. We’re in NSW just north of a massive bit of woodland. As a child I remember the entire southern horizon being flames. Hopefully I won’t see that again. You’re getting flood up in your part of the world I believe. All is OK with you and yours? And yes, I expect many more culinary masterpieces to come 🙂 Thanks 🙂


  2. Rhiannon is awesome! ?? Rushing to get the ingredients before the store closed is a great way to show how supportive you are. You didn’t give up either. So you all are equally awesome! Wish Nicole, Rhiannon and you a blessed and wonderful New Year!


    1. I tell you, inside I was a bit miffed at the late night drive (so maybe not as awesome as you think). But I would not let Rhiannon down – ever – as much as I can help it 🙂 Thanks for your kind words. 🙂 Wishing you and yours a great 2016 🙂


      1. LOL! ?? That’s the key! You didn’t let her down and you would not let her down!


  3. My 12 year old son graced our holiday with a camouflage cake. Not sure of the connection to Christmas or any other known holiday of the time. It was a marbled sort of cake with different brown and green colors topped with bright green icing. Not sure I want to know how those colors came about. Didn’t honestly look that appetizing but since it was my parental duty to eat a piece, I tried it and it actually tasted pretty decent.


    1. LOL Ken. Yes, kids can be quite creative with their cooking 🙂 I actually like the idea of a camouflage cake. Did you ask him “Where is it? I can’t see it.” 🙂 Thanks 🙂


  4. What a wonderful Christmas story! Thanks for sharing it and the cake looks beyond delicious! I wish you and yours a very merry New Year! ^_^v


    1. Thanks and I wish you and yours a great New Year too 🙂 The cake was sooooo rich, but very delicious 🙂 All those calories…


    1. Thanks. Mind you, things always look better when all you see is a snapshot. But yes, they aren’t too bad 🙂

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