The Wifestyle was MIA last week, sorry about that. The 10 days previous to this have not been easy. Without too much detail they have seen the end of my marriage, a bittersweet mothers day with my 2 gorgeous munchkins and the beginning of a new year in my life as I celebrated my 36th birthday. As you can imagine I didn’t much feel like baking!
Anyhow, now I’m back and I’m starting to see the sun again so the oven is back on and house smells like cake.
My children were quite put out yesterday when a birthday cake failed to materialise for me. They wanted to know how come everyone else gets a birthday cake but you Mum? Because I make one for everyone else kids!
Never one to deprive my kids of the chance to eat cake I promised to bake one today and what better than the beautiful English classic that is a Victoria Sponge.
You may remember a vanilla cupcake recipe I posted a couple of weeks ago. I love those little cakes and I wondered how the batter would manage in a larger cake tin rather than a cupcake case. This seems like a good opportunity to try so I gave it a shot.
I mixed up the batter, filled 2 tins and put them in the oven on the middle shelf. Both cakes looked fine when I turned them out so I left them to cool.
About half an hour later I noticed a bit of cake had fallen out of one of them. I picked up the wire tray to look at the bottom and got a plop of uncooked batter right on my nose!! Guess that one is going in the bin.
Thinking the other one would be the same (not a stretch given it is the same mixture and has been in the oven for the same amount of time) I picked it up and broke it in half. Murphy’s law, it was perfectly cooked. So now, instead of my lovely double layer victoria sponge filled with jam and buttercream I have one layer which is broken in half. How do I give the kids the cake I promised them?
A flash of inspiration had me digging out a round cutter which I used to cut circles of the broken cake. I cut them in half, filled them with jam and buttercream and then popped the two parts back together. They now resemble cute little sponge cake scones, they taste awesome and the kids are beyond delighted with their mini cakes.
I guess the point of my story today is that life is a bit like a cake. Sometimes it’s burnt, sometimes it’s undercooked and sometimes it’s broken in half but you can always use what you have left to make something better.
For obvious reasons I haven’t included this recipe. I’ll try again and if it works I’ll share it a later date.
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