My two new favourite questions have definitely become -
1. "Sooooo.... when's your birthday?"
2. "Aaaand.... what are your favourite flavours?"
Best response so far? Blueberry orange - thank you Jay for being adventurous!
This isn't even the grandolith-monolith cake-o-glory - this is just the home cake! I ended up doubling the vanilla cake recipe from ED&BV, so I had enough left over to make a cake for my family for my last day in town. Tongue-in-cheek captioning and all! I also switched most of the milk for real-squeezed organic orange juice and added zest and orange extract.
Break time for real food. Tofu sharks on the cast-iron waters, arrrrrr!
Yummy stir-fry goodness, on udon noodles. And since I was candying oranges anyway for the Grandocake, I tossed some of the extra syrup in the stir-fry sauce I made and it was awesome. I also got to use my new chili-garlic sauce! Can you believe I lived this long without owning any? I totally can't.
Home cake innards, with about a mile of icing on top because I decided to use up the extra and be generous like that. It's almost all dyed naturally, and the blueberry flavour is the juice from the pot that I stewed the blueberry filling in. It tasted... blue. Amazingly, burstingly blue. (I pat myself on back now).
And the pièce de résistance - A triple-decker, fully torted, stuffed with filling, moist and citrusy, sparkling berry bonzanza mouth-party!!!
I wish I had pictures of the insides... they would bring a tear to your eye. I woke up the next morning to find birthday boy excavating the orange mountain with a fork and a slight hangover and a pretty blissful expression on his groggy face, to which I say mission successful! and also....
what are your favourite flavours? :D
