frivolous fruity fun in prep for a beautiful birthday

[kareina]

Tomorrow is baronsnorri's birthday, so I took the time this afternoon to make him a cake. He is fond of fruit cake with so much fruit in it that you can barely see the cake.

So I took this bowl of fruit

(two types of dried figs, two types of dates, currents, sultanas, raisins, dried pears, dried apricots, glace cherries (both red and green), glace pears, glace ginger, candied citrus peel, dried papaya, glace pineapple, dried apple, and a few other miscellaneous "mixed" dried fruits.)





and about 2/3 of a 500 g bag of Brazil nuts, and enough cake batter to make a single non-fruit-filled cake(made with butter, dark brown sugar, Leatherwood honey, golden syrup, flour, eggs (fresh from baronsnorri's hens), milk, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, cubebs, ginger, mace, allspice, and nutmeg). Needless to say, when combined, a second cake pan was required...





Happy Birthday baronsnorri! I hope you like it!

Comments

[baronsnorri.livejournal.com]

It looks, & smelled, wonderful! One can hardly wait to taste it.... : )

[corva.livejournal.com]

*swoon*

[kareina.livejournal.com]

It turned out to be quite tasty, particularly with the double-cream!

Come on down and have some! ;-)

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

Oooohhh, fruitcake! Kahnegabs loves fruitcake with real fruit and nuts. Must. Make. Fruitcake!

Too #$%^%$# hot to bake! Well, I'll wait till fall I guess.

It sounds just too good to wait. I'll bet he loves it!

[vittoriosa.livejournal.com]

Oooh, looks delicious!

[ariadne3.livejournal.com]

I think the bowl of mixed dried fruits looks even more beautiful than the cake!
I'm not usually one for fruitcake, but I will make an exception if it is a notably good fruitcake, which this appears to be.
Gosh, that's a big ocean between here and there. I bet the cake would be gone by the time I swam over.

[kareina.livejournal.com]

You know, fruit cake ages very well--if you told me you were on your way, we'd save you a piece! However, I suspect that with your summer ending, you might prefer to save your energies for your studies, long-distance ocean swimming being such a demanding activity.

[madryn-1960.livejournal.com]

Nice! No-one makes a cake like you, Honey! Lucky Baron Snorri.

[kareina.livejournal.com]

There is still some left, come on up and have a slice!