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

[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! ;-)