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I’ve realised how few of my other cake projects are on here, so I’m adding the Hitchcakes: Two Hitchcock themed cakes. ‘The Lady Vanishes’ was a blackberry and raspberry lime drizzle cake. Jess and I created it in honor of the keynote speaker at the Graduate conference I was part of organising. The second is a ‘The Birds’ cake for my friend Catherine’s birthday. I almost went insane while making this cake. Tying kebab sticks together with dental floss is not my favourite activity. (The cake underneath is classic sticky ginger. Both the recipes can be found in the BBC goodfood cakes and bakes, a most reliable book!)

People usually give up stuff for Lent, right? Like cigarettes, alcohol, or being bitchy etc. Well, I don’t smoke, and I can’t afford to become an alcoholic, and I.. well let’s say nothing about the last one. I don’t actually have any serious expensive health damaging vices, apart from a mother who bakes too much cake. Therefore for Lent I have devised a series of challenges to improve myself:

By the end of Lent I will have:

• Finish Midnight’s Children which I have been reading FOREVER.
• Read all 37 plays officially recognized as having been written by Shakespeare.
• Written and redrafted four short stories/short radio plays/short plays. (These can be rubbish.)
• Made one dress. (This cannot be rubbish.)
• Seen at least two pieces of Theatre per week. (This week will be Centralia at the Wardrobe Theatre and The Table at the Tobacco Factory Theatre.)
• Read seven non-Shakespeare plays.
• Watched all of the films that I have borrowed off friends and need to give back, i.e. Dark Days, Audition, Bad Lieutenant, that Nanni Moretti film Kwojo lent me and so on.
• Made seven of the best veggie burgers in the world from the book on said topic. Which means finding some ridiculous ingredients. Get over it!

Signed,

Steph

On a less pious note things I am looking forward to in March are…

…A Blitz Party!

…making a cake for The Alternative Miss Bristol (look on facebook for it), I will be creating a drag queen Isembard Kingdom Brunel, complete with candyfloss sideburns. 

Finally I want to share with you the last cake I created:

The American Beauty inspired George Monbiot cake: