For birthday dessert Jac requested tiramisu. She didn’t want a birthday cake. I made the tiramisu using a recipe from my Home Food cook book. Note to self: save up and buy a decent mixer! I couldn’t believe how long it took to hand beat the egg yolks with the caster sugar until the sugar […]
Sorry I took so long to post this! Pre-Christmas stuff had to be done. After the satay, we enjoyed sweets made by three different people! OK. This first dessert has a little story behind it. These two kinds of “balls” were made by Wanda. Wanda is the wife of Michael, who helped cook the satay. […]
Pattycakes loves sweets, and we encouraged her to order whichever dessert took her fancy. She ordered the banana and passionfruit crepes. They came with a plump strawberry garnish and a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream. I had a mouthful – it was beautiful! Really REALLY sweet and passionfruity-bananary. Jac ordered the trio of […]
The kids had chocolate sundaes recommended by our waitress. They came topped with a mountain of whipped cream dusted with chocolate. Not sure how much they were. The result was happy children with chocolate-streaked faces and very sticky hands. I had to take this picture really fast because S wanted to plunge in. None of […]
Dad’s birthday cake was a black forest one. The words were dark chocolate piped on thin pieces of white chocolate. The cake came out with this ball of fried ice-cream, with a sparkler doing its thing at the top, and a rather impressive smokey effect going on at the bottom (later I was told this […]