Claire's Cake Bake & Other Foodiness

It was my brothers 30th Birthday earlier this week & despite him denying the whole thing it really did happen… so to celebrate I had to make a cake.  At first I had exciting ideas revolving around mountain bikes, his new hobby but it was soon decided that it would be based around his love of all things guitar related.  Elodie *loves* Gung Gungs guitar (Gung Gung is her attempt at saying Uncle & seems to have stuck for now) and once I told her we would be making a cake for his birthday all she kept saying was “gung gung cake” followed by the noise a guitar makes… thats a lesson I should have learnt from, not to tell her anything that is a secret that she can talk about :)

We also went out for a meal to Simon Rimmers restaurant Earle in Altrincham… it was really nice if a bit far to trek from the Wirral but we all enjoyed some delicious food & a nice time was had by all.

Anyway, here are is the cake (I was up until midnight last Saturday making the icing guitar)

There probably aren’t many readers left following my lack of posts over the last 2 years but I do keep meaning to blog more, so to try & make me a more active blogger I am changing it slightly to include 2 new categories/sections – Cooking with… and Cooking for… both of which will be more toddler/children focused.

Elodie is taking more and more interest in the kitchen and what happens in there and often wants to see what is going on on the worktops and hob so with that in mind I am going to try & include more on what I make for her and what things she can help with.  She has already helped me in trying out Pudsey cookies and enjoyed helping to roll out the dough and watch the process of mixing, rolling, cutting, baking and then the best bit – eating!

So there you go, hopefully we’ll get to write and photo some cooking soon.

Claire