Cake Wednesday

Hello to you!

Yesterday I was at work so it must have been Cake Wednesday again - ta da da dah!  Sort of one of my favourite days of the week (because of the cake) and sort of less so (because I'm away from my kids).

Some days everything seems to go right for me in the morning, and some days it's a total disaster.  I swear I don't do anything differently on the good days, but everything just seems to run smoothly.  Yesterday was a smooth running day so I fed the small people, left them with my dear Mama who was on Baby-watch and headed off to work - early!  Unheard of for me! Mr Husband Sir even swept off the snow that had collected on my windscreen.  Happy day :)

As I wasn't rushing I managed to listen to my ipod on the walk into work.  I usually park a short distance away from my office to avoid parking charges and walk in.  I love listening to music whilst i walk. I love that bubble feeling, that you're only one that can hear what you hear.  I love the fresh air and the stroll wakes me up (a little).  The only downside is that I do have a tendency to start walking to the beat of whatever I'm listening to, so sometimes I probably look a little bonkers - but hey, what's new!

This morning I popped my musical friend on shuffle and was treated to the Pixies track "Where Is My Mind?" which I first heard during the final scene in Fight Club, you know the one, where Tyler and Marla are stood holding hands in a high up, glass fronted office building looking out over the city as all hell breaks loose.  It's a huge, dramatic tune and set me off walking at quite a pace.  Then it skipped to House of Love's Shine On, which I also love.  It's been buzzing around in my head all day.  That and Edelweiss for some reason!

Anyway!  I didn't photograph yesterday's cake, largely because it didn't hang around long enough!  But I went for a Mille-Feuille, again from Patisserie Valerie.  Their picture:

Dear lord it was like I had died and gone to a vanilla custard based heaven!  I managed to get crumbs of flaky pastry all over myself in my haste to eat it, but it was worth every scrap of washing powder!

So, what with cake and excellent musical accompaniment yesterday turned out well!  How were your days?

Cake Wednesday

Is everyone on a diet? It's this time of year when everyone is fresh faced, resolute and determined to be healthy and create an army of "new me's". Well good on you! But its not for me. I never start a diet in a Monday and certainly never at the beginning of the year. Too much pressure, the risk of failure is both high and public.

And I REALLY love my food. I work two days a week. To make those days a little more bearable they have been transformed and rechristened: Cake Wednesday and Curry Friday.

Yesterday was Cake Wednesday and as it was my first day back I was very sweetly treated to a delicious cake from a shop I'd never been to before; Patisserie Valerie. A much needed cross between beautiful French patisserie, coffee shop, and high street take away (or indeed cake away). A chain apparently, cropping up in many towns around the UK, I may well be the last one to this particular party, but oh my word it was delicious!

Individually each cake would have cost £3+ but they were offering two for £5 or four for £10 so it seemed silly not to use the excuse to go nuts and drive the cost down.

I went for the "Double Choc" which was described as dark chocolate sponge layers with dark belgian chocolate cream layers, finished with a chocolate profiterole.

The Before shot...

It was, to coin a phrase, AMAZEBALLS!

Packaged up in a beautiful cardboard box complete with ribbons and stickers, then popped into a very pretty paper bag. Am I the only carrier bag snob out there? I'll be reusing that baby!

My cake was rich and gooey and I needed a cuppa to wash it down, but my word it was nice.

I brought home their tiramisu for Mr Husband Sir to eat on his return from the football. It was all I could do not to scoff that bad boy before he came back. Clearly those boxes and stickers have a dual purpose!

I was in bed when he ate his, but it also received rave reviews, and he'd pretty much licked the plate clean which is always a good sign, no?

Worth a visit of there's a branch near you :)

The During shot.  There is no after shot.  Nobody needs to see that.