Beerthday Cake

Happy Birthday to my favourite beer drinker in the world! :D

We couldn’t go and a have birthday drinks at our local micro brewery’s taproom as we had planned because … well, it’s 2020 and therefore all your plans are laughable.

But we still had beer. And cake. So yay!

It is a chocolate & stout cake (Nigella’s recipe), slightly adapted because I will never be able to follow instructions and I LIKE ME LIKE THIS. And I didn’t use the topping, obviously, but dark and white chocolate.

For the crown cap I used silvery sugar sprinkles, which worked better than anticipated. Take that, 2020!

I like to think that my cake contributed to an overall fun birthday for my man, and we are appropriately groggy today. We appear to be old enough now that this is a good sign. Now excuse me while I go and lie down for a bit.

Pepernoten Christmas Cake in a Cinnamon Fir Forest

 

We had our traditional (!) Christmas dinner last weekend. And would you believe it, I volunteered to bring a cake! :)

I made a pepernoten cake. Pepernoten are Dutch Christmas … biscuits? Things. Let’s agree to call them Christmas things. Also, italics.

So, yeah. Pepernoten. They taste a bit gingerbready and are very lovely. I made a quite moist sponge cake with bits of pepernoten in it. The bakpubliek liked it! :D

 

On top of the cake, I put loads of sparkly sugar stars. Because Christmas!

 

 

For the fir forest, I’d baked cinnamon biscuits the previous day. I bought two more biscuit cutters especially because I wanted to have different shapes and sizes for the trees.

 

And there’s a dinosaur lurking in the forest! I didn’t have to buy an extra biscuit cutter for him, though. Surprised, are you?

Merrooooooooooooooooooaaaary Christmas!