Role Reversal

Its a bit odd today, because instead of Phil getting up before me a zipping off to work, it's me that is struggling to get out of bed to meet my impending 9-5 doom whilst he snoozes away without a care in the world.

At lunchtime Phil picks me up from work and we go into town to pick up the things we need to make this birthday cake, and it isn't a cheap skip down the high street either, I think we spend the best part of 40 quid on ingredients, cake tins and cake storage oddities before we think we've got everything covered.

Phil then drops me off back at work where I get on with the usual.

Back home (and I'm running late) I set about baking this chocolate cake, and it's a big job to say the least. My arm is aching by the time I've mixed together all of the ingredients, and its a relief to stuff the darn thing in the oven and leave it cook. We get pizza for tea whilst that is happening, and soon enough the cake is ready to come out of the oven. It looks ok, but as its an untried recipe I've no idea what it will look like.

By 10pm the cakes are cool enough so that we can decorate it, and after much dilemma over the use of raw eggs in cake frosting (and a distinct lack of guaranteed Salmonella free eggs) I decide to cheat a little and use some bought frosting from Betty Crocker. I mean if it had been just Phil and I eating the cake I wouldn't have worried about using the frosting recipe I had, but since other people would be eating the cake I didn't want my first cooking experience for the Hough family to end up in food poisoning!

Phil helps out with the decorating too, proving to be a dab hand at eating chocolate buttons as well as sticking them on the cake, and by the end of lots of sprinkling, piping and spreading, the cake certainly looks like we made it hehehehe :)

With all of that done we then head to bed, I'm all baked out for this evening!

Posted by Abi on the November 25, 2005 9:54 PM