happy misdemeanour
Yes…my dear friends, as its name suggests this blog is not meant to just crow about culinary successes but also share the disasters. And here is my latest. I had committed myself to bake a cake for a local Amnestea event (read: tea and cakes afternoon to raise funds for Amnesty International). The cake I had planned to bake was Candida’s gorgeous torta caprese al limone, which I have now made several times with great results. Everything was going well until I put it in the oven. Unfortunately instead of turning the oven on I inadvertently switched the grill on. After putting the cake in the oven I then proceeded to work on the computer upstairs and didn’t come back downstairs for another 40 minutes only to be greeted by a smell of burnt food and a blackened , sunk in the middle, sad looking cake. ARGH! DISASTER!! I couldn’t possibly take THAT to the Amnestea event! My reputation would suffer! Needless to say I had to dispose of the cake and quickly make another (husband wasn’t impressed!) , which is the carrot cake I am going to blog in just a few minutes. 
So you see? Nobody is perfect! And we shall just have to file this little “accident” as a senior moment…:-)
Così due post in uno!!!!