Yesterday, as promised, I took Andrea to Roody’s cake shop in Hinckley.
I also took Oscar, granny and uncle Robber.
We made quite a party.
It was great. I know I keep banging on about Roody’s, but honestly, I have lived in and around Hinckley all my life, and in my opinion, Roody’s is the best thing that has ever happened to that town. I am so willing it to succeed.
If we do get our visa application accepted. I will have to get Mrs. Roody to send me parcels of cake every week. Either that or get her to write a recipe book so I can copy them.
Mrs. Roody tries to make a new flavour of cake every day. Yesterday she invented ginger and rhubarb cake. It may sound iffy, but believe me, it was gorgeous.
It was moist sponge layered with rhubarb butter icing, with a cream cheese frosting lightly dusted with ginger. It wasn’t too rhubarby. It wasn’t too gingery. It was just right. I love both flavours and rhubarb in particular is for the win. It was heavenly.
Today I popped in to talk to Mrs. Roody (and Mr. Roody) about them hosting a tea party for my new project. They are all for it, which is brilliant. I will be blogging about all our tea party activity over at the new blog: ‘The Dormouse’s Last Stand’ later.
While we were chatting Mrs. Roody had to keep nipping off to check on her latest creation. She was in the middle of inventing a pina colada cake.
Mmmmm…
Sadly I didn’t have the time to stop and test it today.
I bet it was gorgeous though.
She was telling me that some days she gets a bit stumped for new cake ideas. I thought we might be able to help her out.
Have a cake you have tasted, and wanted to recreate but didn’t know how? Have a flavour of cake you’ve always wanted to try?
Bung the ideas in the comments box and I will forward them on to her.
I will test them for you, and if they’re any good, I might even fedex you a slice.
Peanut butter and chocolate! Worth a visit from Nottingham. Actually I might move from Nottingham for peanut butter and chocolate cake.
Many years ago in Switzerland I had something called ‘Africaine’: it was a ball of sponge cake about four inches across, with a liqueur-flavoured (possibly maraschino?) cream at the centre and the whole thing was covered with a thin film of chocolate. Truly scrumshus…
I like both your ideas and am willing to test them should they make the grade with Mrs. R.
Me I am thinking something with salted caramel in it. I know it has probably had its day fashion wise, but I am still enamoured of it. It rocks.
I popped over from Google Reader to suggest exactly that – salted caramel. It is truly orgasmic.
‘Thanks’ to you I now have an addiction to the salted caramel fudge that Waitrose sell (have forgotten the make because my brain is befuddle by sugar). I have been known to eat a whole packet in one sitting. I have been known to feel quite sick as a result.
Now there’s an idea: salted caramel fudge. Oh. Oh. Oh.
Waitrose does salted caramel fudge???!1!!??!11!/ To the car!
Wendy
They’ve stopped doing the salted type at my Waitrose and at Ocado. I wept.
Mrs Jones
Company is called Burnt Sugar. OMG!!! Glorious.
An almond flour cake with whatever fruit is in season. MMMmmm.
(Also, if you end up being anemic you should also request a celiac test as anemia is a symptom, just some random unsolicited assvice.)
Sarah
Good idea. I will pass it on. I forgot to think about almond flour. Made a Genoese sponge cake last year using lots of eggs and almond flour. It was good.x