On Carrot Cake and Being Followed

The other day I got so excited, I think it was possible a little bit of wee came out. To many people, the event that occurred may be of minor significance, but not to me my friends, not to me.

It began with a cake (what a shock).

Last Friday I bought a beautiful baking book called ‘Stacie Bakes’ by Stacie Stewart (which can be purchased here). Stacie is the owner of the Beehive Bakery who has appeared on This Morning and more recently as a judge on the ITV program Food Glorious Food.

Flicking through the book and taking in the pretty vintage pictures and gorgeous-looking cakes and pastries, I had a dilemma – do I bake a Guinness cake in honor of St Patrick’s Day or do I bake the slightly less guilt-inducing Carrot and Meringue cake? On consulting the target market (by this I mean my family, who would not doubt be devouring the resulting creation), the carrot cake came out victorious.

Apart from the moment I genuinely considered paying my mum to grate the rest of the carrots so that my arms could recover, the recipe was fun to bake and the instructions were easy to follow. I especially enjoyed that part when I got the blow torch the meringue frosting (bit of a pyromaniac apparently!).

The resulting cake looked like this:

Looks delicious, no? Despite being a bit messy and falling apart when sliced (this may have been due to me not cutting up the walnuts enough), the cake was light and tasty. It was also relatively low in calories due to the inclusion of vegetable oil in place of butter.

Delighted with outcome, I decided to tweet the following, along with a picture of said cake:

What happened next made me squeal a little bit. SHE RETWEETED, REPLIED and THEN FOLLOWED ME!!!

Now I know that to most people, this occurrence wouldn't be nearly as exciting as it clearly was to me, but the fact that I bought her book, baked her recipe and then kinda SPOKE to her about it and then she followed me strikes me as AMAZING. That and the fact that she is so damn cool, with her mod styling, beehive and love of Northern Soul. Eek. Safe to say I was happy about the way this Sunday afternoon of baking panned out.

I suggest that you all go out, buy the book and get baking. Just saying.

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