Ta Dahh!

Cake went according to plan, even decoratively (which is where a lot of my baking falls down). Will see what little miss thinks when she wakes up. It'll be quite funny carrying this down the road to Toddlers - think baby in backpack is in order.

Habbibi's birthday!

Our lovely little girl is one tomorrow, and I have big plans for cake. Thought I would start new bakery and general food-related blog as I think family would die of boredom if I start posting all this stuff in the usual place.

So - plan is to make a cake suitable for a load of one-year olds. Any cake will keep them happy, but we are all so very middle class that it is unseemly simply to make the Coca-cola cake and watch them all spin off into a caffeine and sugar-fuelled frenzy. So, fruity cake from the Green and Blacks cookbook it is (even though I now find Craig Sams a little odd, and am unhappy about the Cadbury's buy-out. The chocolate and the book are still lovely).

Am to bake cake soon (as soon as Habbibi's daddy has cleared the way in the kitchen), and then have somehow to find time to cover it in topping and artistically arranged fruit before 10am tomorrow. Oh, please nap, little Hab, and also please let me have a good night tonight...

Ha - just back down from the first waking.