Cake 13

Very Special Carrot Cake

25 September 2010

Thank you Joyanne and Andy for hosting dinner. Together with Kay and Grant we all had a wonderful evening.

Joyanne made what she suggested was an "almost disaster cake" which was not a disaster at all, instead it is on the 'must do again' list.

Special ingredients: carrots, glace ginger, pineapple and macadamias. The cooked cakes are then drenched in syrup and joined together and topped with icing. Very nice (as was the dinner).

Cake 12

Vanilla Cupcake and Lemon Icing with pansy decoration

25 September, 2010

Thank you Kay, so beautifully presented. Kay and Grant arrived at Joyanne and Andy's for dinner (see Cake #13) with this surprise. Kay whipped up this creation just before arriving.

Blowing out the candle

While I write this blog on this sunny Sunday afternoon, Paul, Seb and I enjoyed the cake. Yum.

Cake 11

Chocolate Guiness Cake, from Nigella Lawson's "Feast".

21 September, 2010

The cream cheese icing mimics the froth on a guiness :)

This was an experiment - I had never made this cake. Can Guiness really work in a cake? Yes it can! Thumbs up all round: "definitely must do again".

Thank you to Felicity and Vaughan for hosting a delicious dinner. Also included Bruce and his son Christopher, and Felicity and Vaughan's sons Nigel, Stephen and Warren.

This was a joint celebration: a farewell to Vaughan who is being posted overseas for a few months, during which he will celebrate his 50th. I made the cake to us all to celebrate and to wish Vaughan all the best.

Vaughan and Paul both cutting the cake

Felicity's gorgeous fruit salad went well with the cake


In the oven

Just before the trip to the oven

Cake 10

Yum! Poppyseed Cake, made by Nicole. A long-time family favourite, Nicole used the recipe passed down from her mother. Thank you Nicole, Bruce and Marie for a wonderful evening!

It's 10th September, and we have our 10th cake. In the year 2010.

A close-up shot of the delicious cake

Cake 9

Gluten-free Chocolate Cake

29 August, 2010

Thank you to all our walking friends - dinner at QStation in Sydney, 28th August with Alice, Warwick, Greg, James, Simon, Robert, Campbell, Maria, Mary-Anne, Wayne, Deb.
Cake supplied by QStation's restaurant (we spied a Michel's Bakery box in their kitchen!)