It's TT - time for the carrot cake...

[curiouswombat]

We are currently in the midst of the TT motorcycle festival which, for me, means I am making what feels like industrial quantities of carrot cake - not to mention chocolate cake, chocolate brownies, flapjack, gingerbread... We sell filled baps, hot pasty, and lots and lots of home-made cakes at church to the spectators, as our church grounds are an excellent spot to watch the racing.

So this was yesterday's baking in my house -



That was the third 18 piece carrot cake I've made, and I will make at least one more. The chocolate cakes behind, together, come to the same size but somehow, on that angle, they look a lot smaller. I know now that these are 'sheet cakes' - thank you bojojoti - in this case dark chocolate with chocolate frosting and fudge chunks.

I've also done 3 trays of chocolate brownie, 2 trays of oat flapjack, and one of gingerbread the same size as the carrot cake. And D-d has also been turning out her specialities - cherry frangipan, fruit flapjack, rocky road and tiffin. I reckon, just between the two of us, our personal cake sales will raise about £170 - and our input is about 10% of the whole!

For something completely different, there are a few pictures I took a week or more ago, just of the sea, and a stairway to nowhere...

A nice sunny day with a bit of a breeze to put the white horses on the sea - a good day for dog walking. And a rather lonely staircase to nowhere...








Oh - and a picture I took for photo_scavenger of a rather nice post box which serves a hamlet of about 6 or 7 houses in the west of the island;

Comments

[estelcontar1.livejournal.com]

Beautiful pictures, but the cakes are most definitely making my mouth water. They look soooooooooooooooooo delicious. Remind me never to read your emails so close to supper time. *lol*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The carrot-cake fest is an annual event - and I admit to a sense of relief every year when I've made the last one. I left a few squares of chocolate cake at home for S2C - he doesn't actually like carrot cake!

[estelcontar1.livejournal.com]

Lucky S2C, though I can't imagine why he doesn't like carrot cake.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It's that word 'carrot'... he doesn't like carrots anyway, and believes vegetables and cake don't go together; he's odd like that!