Dear all,
Today all credit goes to Darren in his ingenuity and creativity in helping me with my task. Unbeknown to me, today was 'Holy Thursday' so therefore appropriate to spend the day making cake. It seemed like everyone else in Collingwood wanted to make cake and/or spend the day shopping ( after all... the shops will be closed for one whole day therefore imperative to stock up on all essential items).
Darren pulled out the ultimate recipe bible; a book hand written by his mum and full of the best recipes known to mankind. Feeling adventurous, three recipes were selected. There were several early flaws in our planning. Firstly, we were both very hungry and food shopping on an empty stomach is both dangerous and costly. Secondly, we needed a large pudding bowl. This may 'sound' like an easily rectifiable problem... but I kid you not, 7pm on Holy Thursday in Collingwood is the Canadian equivalent of shopping on Christmas eve in Hamleys. Wall Mart eventually came up with the goods, and chilli- almonds on hand, we burnt it down to The Dam Pub for dinner (now a haven and home to one the best shepherds pies known to man).
Back home, and it was clear that we were not going to meet the original goal of three recipes. We had been thwarted in the final stages of shopping... whilst D waited in the 'A and P' parking lot (similar to being parked on a rally-driving course), I raced around to find our missing ingredients. Sadly, I was unable to pick up Egg Nog but did find green tea ice cream.. a great alternative)
The next 2 hours were interesting. I created what will now be known as 'mount vanilla'. Mount vanilla decided to 'erupt' in the oven.. causing 'molten vanilla magma' to shoot out from the cake for almost 20 minutes.
D saved the day and the end result actually tasted quite good. Tomorrow I will be making Trifle.
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