cakes – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:57:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg cakes – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 On the tenth day of advent: baking into the small hours… https://shepline.com/2010/12/10/on-the-tenth-day-of-advent-baking-into-the-small-hours/ https://shepline.com/2010/12/10/on-the-tenth-day-of-advent-baking-into-the-small-hours/#respond Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:57:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/on-the-tenth-day-of-advent-baking-into-the-small-hours/ Well almost! 🙂

Upon getting back home from work this evening I found the house smelling deliciously of vanilla; was making fudge. Not to be outdone by this creativity in the kitchen I set to making not one, but two Wimpole Coffee and Walnut cakes. One for Emma’s birthday tea on Sunday, and one for Emma to take into work on Monday. It all turned into a bit of an epic time in the kitchen, the fudge making took way longer than the recipe suggested and the cake also took longer to bake than the recipe would have otherwise have reported. Consequently by the time the second cake was almost done, Emma had already left me and gone upstairs to bed, and I was left to oversea the kitchen.

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]]> https://shepline.com/2009/01/15/stirring-herman/feed/ 0 A Cake Called Herman and a Bunny Called Biscuit https://shepline.com/2009/01/14/a-cake-called-herman-and-a-bunny-called-biscuit/ https://shepline.com/2009/01/14/a-cake-called-herman-and-a-bunny-called-biscuit/#respond Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:16:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/a-cake-called-herman-and-a-bunny-called-biscuit/ Towards the end of this afternoon I had a phone call from Emma with a request to bring one of the other cat baskets into work at 6.30. I asked why and she told me not to worry, that it wasn’t for anything feline or canine in nature. I guessed that it was of the leporidae family. I should really say she, for she is a bunny who has been on death row. Not you understand because there is anything wrong with her, but because she’s a stray and unwanted. The message was today that if she wasn’t out the vets by tonight she would be put to sleep. So we have a bunny rabbit in the rabbit hutch again! 🙂

Biscuit is very cute with lopsided, flopsy-daisy ears and has currently taken up residence in our downstairs toilet (well it’s too cold at the moment to put her outdoors!)

But what of Herman, I hear you ask? Herman is a cake, a living, monster cake. I was first offered a phial of Herman’s great-grandfather last year, but the timing came just as our kitchen was going to be ripped out, but now I can give him a proper home I have a quarter of his father.

Em was a bit bemused when she asked what the hell I was doing in the kitchen, and almost-certainly, only slightly more the wiser once I’d told her. For the next 10 days, Herman will be living with us, in a bowl covered with a tea towel, and in a place that’s not too hot and not too cold. I shall stir him every day, and from time to time, feed him, and then on the tenth day I shall divide him into four and make a cake with a quarter of him. The remaining three quarters will be handed out to three friends who will nurture the sons of Herman and so the monster will live forever…

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