Question authority, not your mother

Dear Cake clubbers,

I thought I'd share with you a project by a rather special cake club member, mummy head chef.

This years Christmas cake, traditional fruit cake, an age old recipe probably one of nanny head chef's (but just maybe nicked from Delia)

anyway, here it is,

and here is the inspiration,

Just out of shot is Gordan the Gorilla. Normal girls had dolls, I had gorillas, but that's for another day.

Christmas party report coming soon!

xxxx



Festive frivolity and frolics

Dear Cake Clubbers,

You are cordially invited to the first annual

Cake Club Christmas Shindig

their all going, are you?

Wednesday 22 December

Cake Club HQ

1pm sharp

Guest are requested to bring a seasonal (and nationally representative if you wish) delights to share, sweet or savoury baked or bought, its up to you!

Nibbles will be provided by head chef,

The shin dig will also feature

THE BAKE AWARDS

Like the BRIT awards but baked

So if you feel a certain cake clubber deserves special recognition this is your chance to show you care, nominations to head chef, all categories welcome.

The One That (Nearly) Got Away

Like all good IT projects, such as [insert project of your choice here], this posting is long overdue, the cake having been provided on 27th October! But, for the historical record, and because its been a long snowy week, here's the obligatory posting.

For reasons which I, er, forget, I was challenged to provide a cake for CEPR Cake Club.

[Note to self: next time check the prize BEFORE entering a competition.]

As I am duly banned from the kitchen at home, other than to wash up, I had to be really nice to my long suffering wife for quite a while to convince her to make one of her famous banana cake's for me.

Here's the result:

I then had to go home and, after washing up, be nice all over again to obtain the recipe. The costs were obviously high, so please do use it so my efforts were not in vain:

Ingredients

2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

3 ripe bananas (mashed)

1 egg

1/4 cup butter, melted and cooled

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 cup walnuts (optional)

Method

Mix all the ingredients together

Pour into a grease paper lined loaf tin

Throw it in the oven for 50-60 minutes at 170C

Conclusion

Very yummy it was too, even if I do say so myself.

RC