I’ve managed to pry Rhiannon off my PC in order to write a post \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“Dad. You always say to stretch yourself,” she replied.<\/p>\n
Damn my astonishing Dad wisdom!<\/p>\n
“But…”<\/p>\n
“Dad! You always tell me to be determined and never give up.”<\/p>\n
And so I gave up. Gave up trying to change her mind.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
No! We needed to go shopping.<\/p>\n
The only open store was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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