Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!
More cake! If you were playing along on social media, you’ll recall back at the end of November that I had a somewhat sleepless week as I did both a birthday cake and a wedding cake. (Honestly, I prefer to double up on them if I have to; two cakes in one week is fewer hours than two cakes in two weeks, because everything is already out and there and I’m doing it anyway so I might as well keep going, you know?)
Because I’m… of questionable abilities when it comes to regulating my own commitments, I also decided it was a good week to bake something for my Year 10 class?
Okay, no. Actually what happened is that I realised there were only one and a half more weeks of classes and some of my Year 10s let me know they were away in the final week, and I’d been promising to bake for them all year, so this was my last opportunity.
As aforementioned, it’s barely any more work to do two cakes than one, really, and I estimated that I needed a 2.25 batch of chocolate mud cake, so figured I might as well just do a triple batch and be done with it.
Glad I did: I needed more like 2.5 for the wedding cake o.O
But anyway, it meant there was that spare .5 batch to make a smallish cake with, and then there was heaps of raspberry meringue buttercream left over from filling the wedding cake (because initially I was going to try to split each layer into four, so it could have three layers of filling, but the cakes were too short for that), and it was a hot night so the icing was taking FOREVER to cool in the mixer (I’d gotten impatient when doing the raspberry filling and ended up with buttercream that was delicious and silky smooth, but very, very soft) so in the 35 minutes the final batch of icing was beating and cooling, I decorated this lil cutie for my Year 10s.
I think they were appreciative; they were certainly excited to see it, anyway, but then we were also “studying a film text”* that lesson, so we all had to be quiet, etc.
Anyway. Cake.
* I mean, this is more legit than it sounds: we do actually study films in subject English. It just sounds less dodgy to say we were studying a film text than to say we spent class watching a movie :’D
And now, what have you made this week? Don’t forget to tag your contribution, or even better, leave a link in the comments!! I love seeing what inspiring things other people have made 🙂 🙂 🙂