Anyone who knows me well will say that I'm not really into all that domestic goddess business of cooking and cleaning. Especially Ben who cooks about 99.9% of nights, maybe even more. This year I'm trying to be a bit better and pull my weight in the kitchen more (although to be fair its March now and this is my only effort so far!). With that in mind I thought I'd make Ben a yummy birthday treat back in January. I wanted to do his favourite cake which I found out after some subtle probing ('what's your favourite type of cake Ben?') was black forest gateau!! Black forest gateau!! That sounded hard to me so I called in the big guns - my friend Sian and Mrs Beeton.
After an assault on Tesco's for ingredients we set to work. For good measure we also did a batch of chocolate muffins to take to the pub with us later that evening. Although I'm not all that comfortable in the kitchen we had a really fun day and the results were, if I do say so myself, really tasty. Ben seemed chuffed with his cake aswell which made it all worthwhile :) Here is photographic evidence of me and Sian elbow deep in cake mix.
and here is the finished product. Not bad hey?
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