Since Will's family are coming for the weekend, I'd already planned making a fruit cake, but when I asked permission to simply chuck the bananas (I don't like banana cake or muffins so don't ever expect anyone else to) it was suggested that I should try my hand at one of the aforementioned.
So at 7.15am I was putting a fruit cake into the GAS oven and removing two of the jolly offending bananas - and it was then that I realised I needed vanilla. While I puzzled that conundrum I pulled out all the other ingredients, worked out how to use the fancy scales, opened the 1kg of sugar ... only to find it was icing sugar!! Who would have thought?! There are two more packs, same size, same ingredient ... and it was at that moment I found the vanilla!!!
I have now made an executive decision - the two bananas have been thrown out. Sadly there are four more smiling up at me from the freezer but I am ignoring their beseeching pleas.
The fruit cake looks marginally better than the first one - it helped that I eventually found a square baking tin in one of the many kitchen shops ($20 equivalent!). I may yet bring it home with me but it's probably 1kg without ingredients.
I'm giving up - Steph and Ray are due here in an hour, so I'd better go up those how many stairs(?) and try to make myself marginally presentable. They have a new dog for me to meet - Ripley - who arrived as a 'rescue dog' last week. He doesn't know how lucky he is! They always have great dogs and oddly enough I met their last one within days of his arrival in their home probably 12+ years ago. He was a handful to begin with but a really, really lovely boy within weeks. I admit that may well be a better picture than my cake baking efforts but ...
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