I made a cake today. It’s the first cake I’ve made in the best part of twenty years. It’s a trial run for the hatchling’s first birthday which is in a months time. I followed a recipe that was in the back of a baby book so it’s fairly healthy, although it does contain a pound (sorry, 4524g) of full fat cream cheese.

It’s turned out okay although for a carrot cake it’s got an awful lot of raisins in it. I’d even go so far as to say that, as there’s nearly twice as much raisins as carrots, it’s actually a raisin cake with carrot. It’s also lacking in sugar which means that the frosting (which is what the cream cheese is for but it also contains raisins) is a little bitter as it’s only sweetened using apple juice (of the concentrated variety). Either we need a sweeter juice or a little added sugar.

It was fun in a this-beats-being-at-work kinda way.

And isn’t raisin a funny looking word.