I'm making a Simnel cake! I'm going to post some pictures of it, well if it turns out well I will, and I hope it does because I'm making it for my neighbour who is setting off with her entire - grown-up family and grandchildren - to stay in a house in Norfolk for 2 weeks. I've also just remembered that they are a family of chefs so the pressure is on eek. I made it in a large old fashioned bowl mixing bowl as it is a large traditional cake and it didn't feel right to put the ingredients in the KitchenAid. There are a whole variety of recipes but this one has stem ginger, which I adore so I hope they do too, and glace cherries. It smells delicious. I'm going to make the tradtional topping too of plain marzipan with 11 marzipan balls on top to represent the apostles (but not Judas). I am not at all we gious but I think that, if you're going to make a cake like this, you might as well do it right :) Or as Nigella says so much more poetically; if you're going to get wet, you may as well go swimming..

Until the picture of the Simnel cake is ready I'm posting some pictures of some very big chocolate cupcakes and a couple of cakes I made for my daughters.