So sadly I have been having way too much fun to be doing any lamo blogging! I've had the Girl's Annual Holiday to MotoGP (it was our 5 year annualversary and also the first year my sister came) (it was, as always, tops. My husband AntWest did poorly but what's not to like about camping, breakfast beers, old mates, an island and loud loud motorbikes?!), school work that I've been shunning, a last minute idyllic camping trip to the Kangaroo Valley (idyllic if you minus the leech that secretly attached itself to my hip, ugh) and a fairly busy time at work. And speaking of work, tomorrow is the Inaugral DADHC Bake Off!
There are several categories - best cake in show, best looking cake, best non-edible cake and best non cake item. Punters can enter as many as they like, and people can pay $10 to be a judge. All spectators and eaters make a gold coin donation. The bake off has been led mainly by my team, as I suspect we're the greediest department there could possibly be! Some entrants include: a marscapone and nutella tart, a baked cheesecake, 'the best scones in the world' a vegan mud cake, and two types of rhubarb cakes (Ricky loves rhubarb apparently!).
I was thinking of entering 36 hour choc chip cookies (which I've been talking up for ages) and this big crumb coffee cake, but a chat with Phil at the noodle markets last week changed my mind. Phil declared that the secret to winning a bake off is liquor. Apparently it doesn't matter how much effort everyone else has gone to, or how gorgeous the cake is - if it's got alcohol in it, you're practically guaranteed to win!
So...I stayed with the coffee cake (only cos the crumbs looked divine, and I also am partial to rhubarb) but decided to also make a drink fused one just to hedge my bets. I found a recipe for a chocolate cake called 'Winning Hearts and Minds Cake', added a healthy dose of cointreau, and renamed it 'Winning Heart and Minds and Hopefully Bake Offs Cake'.
Either way it's win win - I'm paying my tenner to be a judge - not so I can be biased but so that I'm guaranteed to get a taste of all the goodies!
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