Life with Bees

We moved house a couple of months ago and the camera charger disappeared in the move, leaving us without photos. I only found it today during a frantic attempt to clean up the spare room and have been reliving ancient memories from Christmas and the new year.

Among them was this glorious monstrosity - my birthday cake. TK couldn't decide which of my favourite cakes to make: black forest, red velvet or chocolate. So he made all three, bless him.

It's got layers of red velvet and Scharffenberger chocolate cake sandwiched together with a ready-made choc mousse. TK pierced it through with kirsch syrup, covered it in cream cheese frosting and topped it all off with kirsch-soaked cherries. It fed eight people at birthday dinner and we were still cutting tall, ship-like slices off it well into the next week. TK was definitely my cake hero that day. And he still is!