Promise!

I hate to break promises.

I promised a few things lately and I think it’s about time to acquit myself to some of them.

So first of all I would like to share with you some pictures of my short trip to Austria.

My parents had dropped my nana off at a friend’s house and it was my job to pick her up and drive her home.

Wasn’t as easy as it sounds because my grandma is quite a complicated person. (She asked strangers to check on the tyres because she didn’t trust me when I told her on Thursday the car had just been to the garage on Wednesday).

Anyway – it was a stressful, but nice trip and here are some more pics:

There was a special visitor outside the kitchen window:

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And finally the cake.

Now… how do I say this…

It has been… kind of… unsuccessful. You might just call it Mission: Impossible. Or The Ugly Truth.

Let’s just say I was too lazy to read the oven’s manual and therefore didn’t adjust the settings right.

To cut a long story short: the cake looks sort of okay and tastes sort of okay, but in fact it’s still a bit raw on the inside.

A bit embarrassing really, especially considering that I have been thinking about training as a confectioner/pastry cook. (In fact, I have a job interview this afternoon, so wish me luck!)

So I will have to go back and do it all over again – and then I will be able to tell you exactly how to make a “Schichtkuchen” (a layered cake, a bit like Baumkuchen).

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