Week Twenty Three.....Bill the Pom

Well yesterday was Bills birthday....for those of you who don't know, Bill is married to my sister Sharyn, (yes she's the older one!). He turned 50 so on Thursday night I went to bed armed with recipe books and proceeded to plan his cake. I came across an interesting chocolate cake with vodka infused cranberries and thought it sounded delicious and a little different. After noticing that the cranberries had to be soaked in the vodka over night, I leapt out of bed and rummaged through the liquor cabinet for some vodka....found some mango vodka (sounds gross ay!) and made the preparations for the making of this birthday treat. My Friday was shaping up to be extremely busy with ten million things to do for our impending trip away, so I laid everything out on the bench so that I had a head start in the morning.

As the cock crowed the next day, I was frantically melting chocolate and whipping up a treat.

It really did sound like a lovely cake, but I made the biggest mistake of all. I set the timer for 15 minutes too long and out came an extremely dry looking, slightly dark chocolate cake.

Feeling very annoyed with myself, I smothered it with chocolate icing and hoped for the best. Took it around to Bill last night, who had just a few of his nearest and dearest around to celebrate the big 5 0. I escaped long before the cake was cut and I am still awaiting the verdict on the taste.............

We head off tomorrow for a while so Mother Maderia is taking a break from making cakes and leaving it in the very capable hands of Emma. So she can write this blog for you all to follow over the next few weeks. Bye bye for now...take care...xxx

P.S Bill just called with his view on how the cake tasted. A tad dry when it is cut but after putting a piece in the microwave for a short moment, it was exquisite. How cool is that!