I love homebake. Absolutely adore this six monthly event involving brain storming, inspiration seeking to get our creative juices flowing. None of us are professional bakers, but we are all innovative, outside-the-box thinkers, despite the crazy themes we've set for everyone, someone, or rather everyone, brings something to surprise and delight. Enough adjectives, but this really is how I feel about our homebake, and I can't seem to emphasise this enough.
We set a task not so unlike the Disney fairy tale climaxes where our heroes/heroines are to battle the villains, or whatever tasks they have to overcome. Why do we do this? Because we can - the dessertees have not failed us yet! It seems that the themes are never hard enough!
Today's creative and delicious offerings: a perfectly fitting first-day-of-summer blue pineapple-mango fizzy jelly ocean and brown sugar beach, with jelly lolly critters at the bottom of the ocean and shells washed up on the beach (The Little Mermaid); a leaning chocolate sponge tower which should still be safe enough to lock Rapunzel in (provided she lives in cold climate); Winnie the Pooh reincarnated in the form of a delectable carrot cake; sweet talker Lumier filled with smooth white chocolate and mango/raspberry mousse, entertaining us while we eat; and Cinderella has her pumpkin cheesecake 'custard' tart (which turned out to be Clarebear's new favourite!) An absentee Mr Potatohead who hid from us thanks to an abnormal hue (apparently he was quite tasty). This left the poor lime curd aliens under the dome, and their fates depending on their master, The Claws.
I love you guys. So much effort went into your creations.
And that ends another year of divine dessert tours. Six full years and no sign of faltering! Let's see if we could do it for another six (before I develop diabetes, maybe?)
CS
