In fact we made several cakes in preparation for visits from our son and my sister.
It was the son's birthday and he had requested that the OH do him a Viking Ship. The OH had made this on a couple of occasions in Orkney but it was a long time ago. However since it was a special request he had a go and here it is
In previous incarnations it used the sail and shields from a Playmobile Viking ship but if we still have that somewhere we don't know quite where, so it was all done out of choux pastry and creme pat. It was delicious and the boy took the four little extra choux puffs home in a box!
My own contributions were much more mundane, being a lemon drizzle
I don't know if they ran away with the Playmobile Viking ship, not to mention my kitchen apron, but my 1lb loaf tins were nowhere to be seen and haven't been since we moved so I had to put the lemon drizzle mixture in a 2 lb tin. While this isn't the end of the world, it wasn't 100% successful, as it mucked up the cooking time and that was already problematic since the ovens here don't have a great deal of calibration temperature wise. There's a 150 and a 200 and anything in between is guess work. I hope that eventually we'll replace them because I do miss the lovely baking oven I had in Orkney.
That said it was fine and the carrot cake was yummy. Also, while out with my sister at a local garden center we found some 1 lb loaf tins and I treated myself to a couple. So the next lot should be better. I need to reorganise the baking cupboards as, despite our best intentions when we moved, some kitchen stuff was placed where 'it would do for now', and although it may have 'done for then' I'm getting a bit stressed with having baking utensils and ingredients in about 4 different places. Sounds like a job for that empty time between Christmas and New Year.
The worst part of moving is trying to cook with an unfamiliar oven, in a kitchen where nothing is where you expect it to be!
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