First up, as usual, do accept my apologies for the lack of posts. Its not that I don’t have anything to talk about. It’s just that I’m plain lazy. Heh.
Secondly, my sincere apologies to Jim for forgetting his birthday! (It was on the 19th of march by the way…). To make it worse, BOTH Amanda and I forgot about it. Heh. So sorry fella. You know we both didn’t mean to.
And so to make it up to him, we decided we would do a little celebration for him on Sunday. Amanda would get the card and I would get the cake.
To show my sincerity, I decided to bake the birthday cake instead of merely handing over a few notes in exchange for a run-of-the-mill cake from the local bakery.
It’s been a while since I baked actually. I never really got down to doing it as much as I wanted to. Partly because the ingredients themselves was going to cost quite a bit and there never really was any good reason to bring out all the pots, pans, equipment and not forgetting all that washing and cleaning up to be done.
I baked Jim quite a large slab of brownie. I must say it turned out pretty good. I was quite impressed really. The brownie wasn’t typically sweet (i.e cloying and sore-throat inducing) but turned out with a yummy crusty top, moist centre and just the right sweetness. It probably had to do with the use of dark chocolate instead of the usual semi-sweet chocolate chips. Delicious stuff, I would definitely bake it again…some other time.
To complete the cake, Amanda and I arranged the letters J-I-M with mini-smarties. Simple and yet provided that personal touch to a plain ol’ brownie. Pictures are with those two so you’ll just have to wait till one of them remembers to send it (or rather, bluetooth it) to me!
Happy (belated) Birthday again Jim! We still owe you a 23rd birthday present!
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