Thursday 20 August 2009

Jake's Cake

The novelty of being off school since the end of June is starting to wear thin. After dinner tonight Jacob announced he wanted to make a cake, having never having shown any inclination towards baking in the past! It just so happened that Mavis had emailed me a recipe for an Apricot and Marscapone cake earlier this evening and I happened to have the ingredients to hand. (Well, I didn't actually have marscapone but I had regular cream cheese which seems to have worked.)

And so Jake made a cake!

And a very good cake it is too!
I can't see it lasting very long around here. If you've not visited Mavis before do go and say hello. I've known her for about a year since she first visited my Open Studio and she is lovely. She has also been on one of my courses although I don't know why as she is a very talented embroiderer. She gave me this card in the summer - she sketches people from behind and turns them into these super little embroideries. Aren't they wonderful!

18 comments:

  1. The cake looks delish! Happy shopping at the FOQ tomorrow, I'm going Saturday.

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  2. Nice work on the cake. The little embroidery brought a tear to my eye it is so lovely.

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  3. oh yum! And that emroidery is very cute.

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  4. That cake looks delicious. Not bad for a first attempt!Hope you come home from the Festival of Quilts full of inspiration, and with a head full of colour. You won't sleep tonight!

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  5. Wow! What a wonderful cake! Jake is a natural!

    Lovely embroidery too. I wonder if the couple would recognise themselves.

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  6. That looks yummy. Enjoy your day at FOQ.

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  7. Just poppoed in to say hello, I'm new to blogging and have enjoyed rading your blog, please pop over and say hello.
    Karen

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  8. Yum! Could eat a piece right now - was there any left you could send?
    Loved the little picture by Mavis - drawing someone as they went away wouldn't make them feel self-conscious and not quite so important if you didn't quite get the features 100%.

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  9. Gina- so glad you made the cake and it was successful - you don't waste any time, do you? And thankyou for your lovely comments - I have to confess I sit in church sometimes and pull out a pencil and do a bit of a scribble! I COULD put names to them......

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  10. Just catching up on this post and your last one...... both brilliant! I adore that little embroidery, so simple and yet so "right". x

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  11. Looks like a great cake! And that embroidery is gorgeous! Lucy xx

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  12. Jake would win a prize from the WI with that cake! (Better not tell him that, it might put him off) My son didn't start cooking till after he'd left home. I love the little embroidery Mavis did.

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  13. Yummy cake!
    That card is fatastic!

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  14. They're looking at your cake.
    So am I!
    Yum.

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  15. Super cake, wonderful embroidery ... just off to visit Mavis ...

    Have a lovely weekend
    Carolyn x

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  16. Goodness - that's looks rather light and delicious for a first cake. I think my first was a sad droopy number. Clever Jake!

    Mavis' embroidery is so lovely - love that little couple.

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  17. Ooooh, Yum! That little embroidery is adorable!

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