Any one for a kiss!

I come across an old school friend of mine quite often these days and she works on the odd day down at the New World that I frequent often. Victoria is an avid follower of my blog and gave me a recipe to try quoting it off by heart last Monday in the wine isle.

Now I remember her facebook status a while back was that she has, after 20 years, perfected the kiss cake. A family recipe. That should have got me worried as how could it take 20 years of baking to perfect what seemed to be a very normal problem free recipe! It is Sunday morning as I write this and behind me in the oven are the kiss cakes. The timer has gone off and they look quite sweet but anemic. I got 25 of them from the mixture and one only needs to cook them for 8 minutes. Somehow I don't think they are the way they should be!!! I will find out tomorrow when Victoria does the taste test.

Yesterday (anticipating the kiss cakes might not be too good) I made a Ginger cake from the Avenues magazine that arrived in this weeks newspaper. It has the real authentic grated root ginger as well as the ginger powder so it really is a ginger cake! Took it around to friends last night to have while watching the All Blacks show Australia how to play rugby (score 49-28).

Served with a little vanilla ice cream on the side while sipping a bubbles, it was quite lovely.