Rosies Macadamia and Honey Cheese Cake - 18 November 2011
After another busy week it was time to get cooking and I decided to cook
a Christmas Cake. I’m super organised and excited for Christmas as usual so
thought it would delicious to give a cake a go. However, once I started writing
my list of ingredients I realised it was getting kinda expensive and my
Christmas organisation has left me broke a month before schedule… so I scrapped
that and decided on Rosie’s Macadamia and Honey Cheese Cake.
That night I was going out to Karaoke for my friend’s birthday and was
complaining about the fact that I had nothing to do between five (when I
finished work) and nine (when I ‘had to’ arrive drunk at Karaoke). So, I wrote
a list of things that needed doing; washing, change sheets, clean, drink/cook
etc and was feeling ready for my night in.
I started off by opening a beer (beer training has paid dividends!) and
starting on the cheese cake. Cooking the cake was relatively easy, I wasn’t
sure how you know when macadamias are cooked, but just waited for them to go
brown. Everything else was totally straight forward and easy. It got
ridiculously hot in our tiny tiny kitchen and I was not loving that. I didn’t
really have time to get changed as I was right in the middle of the process,
but for some unknown reason I decided the best way to solve this problem, was
to reinstate pants down Friday.
I must have looked like a fool! I was dancing around, listening to The
Prodigy, cooking a cheese cake and eating nachos – not hot. It was good fun
though. I again surprised myself with my own piggishness and stupidity as a not
once, but twice caught myself licking the mixture of the mixer blades. Not a
smart move.
Anyway, I chucked the cake in the oven and sat down for a rocking night
of Guitar Hero. This was potentially the best decision I’ve ever
made! I was loving life and after taking 40 minutes to drink my first beer
while making the cheese cake, the other 5 went down in no time! It was great,
I’d forgotten how much I love some of the Guitar Hero songs! I
call them 'Guitar Hero songs' as I am naïve enough to have never
heard some of them until I started playing (it’s like that awkward moment when
people realise I haven’t seen Star Wars and say things like “Is she joking? How
can she not know what a Storm Trooper is?!” which happened this week).
Eventually the cake was ready – much browner than I would have hoped
for, but ready all the same. I chucked it in the oven and went out to Karaoke.
Rocked it – how could I not!? When I got home at about 5:30 the next morning –
I realised I hadn’t done anything on my list except ‘Drink/Cook’ which meant
that I had to just curl up in a dirty sheet from the floor of my room as I
hadn’t made my bed yet. Oh well.
I took the cake home for Mum and Dad and Dad said it was nice. I
tasted it and thought it was ok, but wasn’t the biggest fan ever (to be honest
I wasn’t the biggest fan of much that day).
I didn’t get a great photo as Dad was being totally impatient (must have
been really hungry) and kept snatching it away while I was trying to set up the
picture, but it’ll do.
Tips: It was only in the oven for about 50 minutes but next time I’d maybe keep a closer eye on it and cover it so the brown doesn’t go too brown.
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