Sometimes you just need cake

Sometimes you just need cake. Maybe I should change that ‘you’ to ‘I’ but for this piece I’m going to assume that we all do. We all need cheering up and that’s never felt more relevant than on this dull and damp January afternoon. We’re now into that hibernation time of year when the holidays are over and unless you try quite hard it can feel difficult to get excited about very much over the next couple of months. I keep reading pieces about people giving up this to that for January but personally I can think of no time of year when I’d be less likely to want to make life any more difficult than it really needs to be. I know that we’ve all probably over indulged in recent weeks but as I said in my last post, sensible eating and portion control should be enough to take care of that. 

So to blow away the winter blues I’m going to continue baking at every opportunity and sharing what I make with you here.

The picture that accompanies this post is of my birthday cake from last week. Normally my partner would have baked it but as she’s currently spending much of her time helping her mother as she recovers from a stroke, the baking duties fell to me. What that meant was that I could make my favourite sponge and indulge in luxurious amounts of strawberries and cream. 

I had a very enjoyable and self indulgent birthday.