Two Cakes

The Twins just turned 4!! How time is flying!! They requested two cakes this year: a truck, and Minnie Mouse! So, after much though, planning, and 3.5 hours work, here are the results!!

Truck and Minnie Mouse

Soup and Sorbet

This past weekend was a cooking weekend!

I made a special birthday dinner for Sean, involving Bobotie, raspberry-blackberry Crumble and a really really nice bottle of Groot Constantia's 2011 Constantia Rood red.... It was really really yummy!! The Bobotie worked well, despite some complications in cooking time. The crumble was really nice and the wine... Oh the wine was AMAZING!!!! No phone photos, so will upload camera photos later.

Other cooking involved a no-recipe scratch chicken soup: 

Chicken Vegetable Soup

Pre-blended... ends up bright pink!

And then we made Raspberry-Blackberry Sorbet!! It was super easy and delicious! We found the recipe in my new birthday present cookbook- awesome!

Fruit Sorbet

Ingredients:

1 lbs frozen berries

1/2 cup yoghurt

1/4 cup sugar

2 tablespoons water.

Method:
Blend in food processor just enough to breakdown the berries, but not too muh else they liquefy. We ate immediately, but could also put back in freezer...