Dave, have a good one and hope you recover soon.
We know why you're sick of course, it's the stress and worry of not knowing whether your recently firesaled equipment will go to a worthy home.
Tell the good wife that her directive to firesale the said goods is causing your health to fail and that the good doctor (Dr Who??) has decreed that only a cessation of hostilities will improve your condition....
If that fails I've included a birthday cake recipe as I couldn't find a way to upload the cake I prepared earlier to this thread....
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Star Birthday Cake
Preparation Time
10 minutes
Cooking Time
85 minutes
Ingredients (serves 12)
- Melted butter or margarine, for greasing
- 200g butter, at room temperature
- 330g (1 1/2 cups) caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 4 eggs
- 450g (3 cups) self-raising flour
- Pinch salt
- 185mls (3/4 cup) milk
- Icing sugar, to decorate
- Hundreds and thousands, to decorate
- Birthday cake candles (better book the fire service in advance as well...)
Method
- Preheat oven to 160°C.
- Lightly grease a round 22cm cake tin with the melted butter or margarine and line the base with non-stick baking paper.
- Use electric beaters to beat butter, sugar and vanilla essence until pale and creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift together the self-raising flour and salt.
- On the lowest speed, mix sifted flour into the butter mixture alternately with the milk in 3 separate batches of each. Spoon the cake mixture into the greased and lined cake tin and bake in preheated oven for 85 minutes or until cooked through and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and stand in the cake tin for 5 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- To decorate, use the star shape above as a guide and cut out a template with a star-shaped hole. Trim the top of the cake to form a level surface and turn the cake upside down on a serving plate making the bottom the top.
- Sprinkle the surface liberally with icing sugar. Carefully place the star-shape template on the cake and sprinkle with hundreds and thousands to form a star on the surface. Decorate with the appropriate amount of candles.
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