Gratuitous Cake Shots

Today one of my dreams came true.

Mrs. Roody of Roody’s Creation Shop, mistress of all baked goods and ice creamy delights offered to adopt me were I to feel the need to run away.

My entire family was with me at the time, and rather than them beg me to stay with them, they simply shouted: ‘Take us too, Mrs. Roody!’

She was too soft hearted to say no, which kind of made my dream cramped and rather noisy, but nevertheless there will be more cake.  So that’s always good.

We have to confess to having spent a great deal of time at Roody’s over the last fortnight.

I finally got Jason to go last weekend, and he was so impressed by the quality of the American pancake stack that he is thinking of chucking up our visa application.  If it weren’t for the fact that Emma Bridgewater pottery is hard to get over there, and he will save hundreds of pounds a month because I will no longer be able to collect it, I’m sure he would call the visa company tomorrow and cancel everything.

We have been for pancakes – yum

We have been for ice cream – yum – I have to say that the key lime ice cream is simply the most delicious thing I have ever eaten in ice cream form.

We have been for sandwiches – the veggie club sandwich is to die for.  It has so much flavour you need at least two mouths to eat it with.

We have been for milk shakes – white chocolate better than real chocolate, fresh strawberry best of all.

We have been for cakes.

Oh! Have we been for cakes?

Yes.

Here is a small photo montage of the cakes I have caked:

This is the strawberry and vanilla cake.  I think the thing underneath it involved caramel and cream.

This is called ‘Hello Dolly’.  It is lemon, lime and orange sponge with orange buttercream holding it all together, and then icing studded with dolly mixtures.

This is a kind of rocky road mousse cake with a biscuit base, mousse in the middle and chocolate with marshmallows in on top.

I also had the pie that is full of caramel and pieces of Curly Wurly. It’s called something like twirly wurly curly shirley yum.  Or something. Anyway. It was so yum I ate it before I took a picture of it. Sorry about that.

This is devil’s food cake.  It is glorious:

Here are Jason’s pancakes dripping with butter and maple syrup. This was taken two seconds before he smothered them in whipped cream and ate them.

And this is ice cream being made the liquid nitrogen way.  How cool is that?

About -159 degrees cool.

Finally, and to show you the power of the blog in action. We went for lunch there today and Mrs. Roody proudly unveiled her first ever Cherry Bakewell Cake, made because our very own blogeuse, Belgian Waffle suggested it.

It looks divine doesn’t it?

I confess to not having tried it.  I was far too taken with the orange cake, which again, I ate without taking a photo of, due to the amount of ‘nom nom nomming’ on my part distracting me from my photographic duty.

But I will return and eat Cherry Bakewell Cake and take more pictures.

And it’s all for you dear ones.

Really…

 

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