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

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Swear to God, you have to stop posting these pictures, or you will wind up with a Cronopio on your doorstep :)

Oh such baking! That's more baking that I can abide. I like cooking way more than baking, so I applaud your efforts most heartily.

The Red Velvet Cake for the Boyz came out well, I guess. I never had any, but it was scarfed up.

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Also, just to taunt you?

Pecan tree in Papacito's back yard. We have gallon bags of them in the freezer, and it always amazes me what they cost if you have to buy them.

Of course, I'm not speaking to Papacito these days, so that's moot...

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Oof, that looks like hard work. And we've had so much cake lately in the office that I'm not even wishing I could patronise that stall! (Too many birthdays, holidays, babies and returns to work in much too short a time. Drowning in flapjacks.)

But very impressive!

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

My mind is boggled at that amount of baking - but they all look delicious!

Great pics, as always . Love the mailbox; haven't commented on PS lately, but I'm checking them out. :)

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Very impressive!

[shirebound]

Your house must smell soooooo good. *drools and wants*

[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*

[dalmeny]

Both of you must be exhausted by now after all that baking. And thanks for the sea photos, very pleasant to look at as I take the bus into work.

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! I want to bake something this week. We are going to have three cool days.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooo! Scratch carrot cake! I am afraid I take the lazy way out and just add some grated carrot and raisins to a spice cake mix, seems to work; I do make my own butter cream frosting for it though!

As close as I am to the sea, figuratively speaking, if I stand on a ladder to peer over the fence the inconsiderate people behind us built, I can see it from the house, I have not been to the beach in years! Your pictures are lovely, not sure Miss Kitty would like to be walked there though, sand in her paws etc.!

Keep on baking, have finished squares for blanket and am now working on a little hoodie, though it seems to be doing a Topsy on me and growing!

Huggs,
Lynda

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

That is a lot of baking! I have carrot cake envy; it's my favorite! And now I'm wondering what you guys call sheet cakes?

I'm curious about the staircase to nowhere. It must have gone somewhere once upon a time, right?

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

I was watching an interview of Dame Maggie Smith, and she said that getting older was like having breakfast roll around every 30 minutes! I'm astounded it's been a year already since the last TT. It seems you were just baking all your cakes just a bit ago!

I love the spiciness of carrot cake, and there's nothing better than homemade.

Such a grand staircase to nothing! zanthinegirl asked the two questions I wondered, so I'll look for your response to her.

[ukamikanasi.livejournal.com]

All nice photos as usual. Love the stairway!

[x19narya90x.livejournal.com]

Wowzers! I just ate two helpings of baked potato with sloppy joe sauce, and I thought I was stuffed...then I saw this...

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Oh you're making me hungry - and I've just eaten!

[wormwood-7.livejournal.com]

I like the staircase. It looks like it is waiting for a stately home to find it.

[myrhiann.livejournal.com]

Your cakes look nice, but it made me feel tired looking at them. They would have been a lot of work. I hope you made lots of money from the cake stall.

I was intrigued by the hotel, it looks impressive in the pics. It was a shame that it had to go. The stairway to nowhere is enclosed on either side by cycads, which are a plant endemic to Tasmania. A British botanist brought back a lot of Tasmanian plants in the 1980's or thereabouts, and they now grace the gardens of many stately homes in Britain. I only know this from viewing a British TV show called 'Lost Gardens'.