noadvertising | Dec. 30th, 2018

December 30th, 2018

I know I promised to never show any pictures of this year´s bumpy fruitcake, but precious daughter mine surely won´t have a look at my LJ, so I dare and present you this year´s Christmas cake, its fabrication accompanied by slackness, bad timing and inexperience. At first I miscalculated the baking time, and the cake came out of the oven a bit too dry, which would not have been bad had not my daughter-in-law told me the same day that she was looking forward to eat the cake at Christmas, but without its usual feeding of whisky, because, oh joy, she was pregnant. I mean we all were delighted about the pregnancy, save for the cake, who had to stay sober this year! Wish I had known earlier about daughter-in-law´s condition, the cake would have come into the oven a few weeks later, with me watching the baking progress more carefully. So we enveloped the cake in layers of greaseproof paper and stored it in a plastic container. When the time of decorating was upon me, which was on the day before Christmas, daughter decided she´d do it all alone this year. Apparently she had done something similar with her friend, so I agreed- and that´s what I got! Yes, we had opted for a simple white cake with stars of different sizes on it. But I always do upend my fruitcakes before covering it with fudge, while daughter forgot about it. Sadly I did not have the opportunity to drive to the shop to buy more fudge! So our cake is white as decided, it has stars on it, but the surface looks like a gravelled road with lots of potholes. It does not taste bad, but I miss the smoky flavour of whisky, and, of course, the whisky´s moisturizing effect. But the cake is eaten up thanks to our always hungry guests, save for two slices which I kept for New Year´s Day. I have learned my lesson, daughter has learned hers, all is well again, even my tummy muscles have recovered from the laughing fits I had at the sight of Mr. Bumpy!