Happy birthday

The Big Lad celebrated his birthday with a “request meal” – roast pork with roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast carrots, peas and elderflower cordial. His cake was particularly special, a Coburg cake with strawberry jam filling and chocolate butter icing. Despite losing a tooth yesterday, he managed to put all of his servings away in no time.

While it’s not quite the Wee ‘Un’s birthday, we let them both open their presents from Nanna to finish the day off. They were both extremely chuffed to get copies of The Mahic Pudding and The Muddle-Headed Wombat.

For the foodies, here’s that Coburg cake in detail. The basic recipe can be found in Maw Broon’s Cookbook, although I used golden syrup instead of treacle and halved the spices so it would work better with the strawberry jam filling and chocolate butter icing. The combination worked extremely well and all of us declared it delicious. There are advantages to not being able to afford enough good quality dark chocolate to make a full-blown chocolate cake!