OT but MEN! Grrrrrrr!!!!

I thought about a trip to Tescos but other half apparently has specified the magic words 'home made' on the intranet. Perhaps I should start giving OH some baking lessons starting this weekend!

Tip - you can freeze both and defrost - thus not having to do them all in the one week... although you can't freeze the icing very well so will have to decorate on the day.

Sponge cakes are best if you usual the equal measure recipe

mince pie refresh well with a couple of minutes in the oven to warm through

this does require a degree of freezer space which is always a premium in my tiny freezer

I stupidly offered to bake fairy cakes fro my friends christening thinking 60 max she wants 200 i think she may need to find another baker to help!

Sounds familiar!!! OH birthday was monday and tradition is that you bring in cakes on your birthday...he had monday off (and i didnt) but tells me sunday night hed said to his new work colleagues hed get me to make 'some mean cupckes'....now his old was around 5people so didnt think this would be a problem until he tells me in his new office theres around 60 people!!

so cue Birthday tea monday night and then birthday cucpakes to be made, cooled and decorated for 60odd people!!

Glad to hear I'm not the only one lol! Don't you just love the way men think we can 'soon rustle up' enough to feed about 500 people. Lovelygirl, I thought about freezing them but I'm struggling for freezer space already! Perhaps I can use this as my excuse to get a huge chest freezer ?

Oh deary me.

Men just don't think do they!

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I want one of these doubt i am going to get it though

oh how i can dream

You can always use it to your advantage by making sure he gets you a HUGE xmas pressie as a thankyou!! OH cooks thankfully although he is in trouble with his lot this year as he's refused to make them a christmas cake cos they complained about the one he did make last year!

Lovelygirl, I've been asking my OH for that exact model for months! Again, I don't think I'm going to get it ☹️ He did buy me an all singing, all dancing kenwood food processor back in the summer so I shouldn't moan too much though!

Curlypanda - love your name lol!

I made a 7 inch fruit cake yesterday and there is only one slice left???? cake seems to do a magic trick in my house a disappearing one.....

It's those cake fairies lovelygirl! We have them in our house too. Unfortunaly they never seem to make cake, only eat them!

Would be ruddy nice if the cake fairies made cake, especially if they washed up afterwards!!!

Ohhh, they sound lovely! Any chance of doing a couple extra for us too?! ? ?

It's funny how my OH loves me making cakes but refuses to load the dishwasher afterwards!

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I make cake atleast once a week or h2b would get so thin he would disappear unfortunately not a problem for me, so i make it after the sunday roast, stick it in the cake tin and the cake tin goes to work... his workmates think he is completely spoiled but i love to spoil him

Haha men, you have to love them....

Panda, please don't forget to tell your OH I am just down the road if there are any leftovers... ?

You would be very welcome to pop by sometime & sample a mince pie or two. Call it quality control!

Lovelygirl, like you I enjoy spoiling OH. Or at least that is my excuse! Actually I just NEED to have cake in the house ? Would do a rolling on floor laughing smiley if I knew how.

If this snow continue's, the left over mince pies might be all we have left.. hehe

Kayl, you say that as if it's a bad thing! ? Any excuse for mince pies ?

I hate to admit this in public, but I don't actually like Mince pies, ?

But... Xmas Yule log, totally different...

Especially if it is made with Cadbury's Dairy Milk.... ?