Here's my Mother's Day flowers.
After finishing the Queen and deciding the chin was too pointed, nose too long, etc. etc. did a sketch of Prince Charles, presumably with the same faults, then digressed to make a Nigel Slater chocolate cake with mascarpone coffee and maple syrup icing. Somehow his recipes never quite seem to work: the icing was far too runny. Next time I shall use less maple syrup, stronger but less coffee or even Camp liquid coffee, and just stick to butter icing with lots of icing sugar. I shall also make a coffee cake with walnuts and put walnuts on top. The one I made has firmed up a bit in the fridge, but I think I will slice it up and freeze it to serve with ice cream as a kind of pudding. At least the exercise made me buy some matching cake tins which I did not own before.
I have ordered the ingredients for my next dark fruit trifle which I shall make on Saturday and decorate on Sunday for the SE1 dinner party club, this week meeting at Nomad's flat at Butler's Wharf. Again, rather upmarket for us Elephant denizens.
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