Get a grip woman!

Suffolk_lass

I had made Christmas cakes for several people and got them out to marzipan them last night. For space-saving reasons I had packed them in tins. They had all gone mouldy except the one I had wrapped in paper and foil. :eek::eek::eek:

I now have to re-make 5 cakes before Friday, and ice two of them. Combined with working away for two days and one night.

I think the two that need finishing will have fondant rather than traditional royal icing but I'm trying to make two today. What a terrible waste of beautiful ingredients.

I have stored in tins before but not using the paper I used this year and I also fed them more with brandy last time so the air was exchanged more often. A really sad lesson to learn there.

I will maybe try boiling fruit to speed up the soaking period but I will have to buy eggs, oranges and currants to be able to make them. As the title says - Devastated!

Karmacat

Oh that's horrible! You poor thing Ingredients, time, money, distress - it goes on

I'm really surprised that paper, of all things, is part of what makes such a difference. Though I can understand the brandy - not only the air exchange, but the preservative power of alcohol. What a harsh lesson best of luck with replacing them.

redofromstart

oh no - I'd be devastated too

Hope you can manage to sort it. Have you thought about dundee cakes instead which would at least remove the need to ice them?

(BTW I loved the mutley impression)

Suffolk_lass

Thanks for the empathy. I have made five cakes but not marzipan or iced any. That will be this weekend. I realised DH will be off to see his Mum next Wednesday when school breaks up so he can deliver two that day, giving me a small window of additional time. Of the other three, I can post two or send all three home with my Mum, after Christmas as they are all for Scotland.

Another mad day in paradise here, just about to make a dip for tonight's girl's do (at someone's house) - the vegetable curry is made and ready to pop back in a slow cooker to reheat later. I have just written the cards for tonight - just a birthday card to do and a "secret Santa" to wrap. Dentist later this morning (50 miles from here) so need to get a wiggle on.

boxofpaws

I started to read through diaries on Sunday and I got to your post about the mouldy cakes and had to put the ipad down. How unbelievably annoying for you.


Busy day for you, hope you're keeping well


Paws x

Suffolk_lass

Thanks Paws, we are keeping well. I may have met myself coming back the other way today, and have decided that for sanity's sake I am going to work from home tomorrow and hammer my phone bill instead of travelling in to sit on the phone all day.

Arrived home just about 30 minutes ago to find our Christmas tree horizontal at the very moment DH told me he had watered it and I started to say "Did you secure it first?" (and did not say - 'because we don't want a repetition of last year where you did not secure it and it fell, smashing collectable porcelain') - too late. Last year we lost one piece. This year he has managed two, and possibly wrecked the carpet (still clearing up wet horticultural sand and attempting to secure the tree vertically). He knows how deeply unhappy I am. Frankly suppressed incandescence with frustration only begins to get close.

I was just going to put ribbon round my cakes and then flop. now I have to start again with the bloody tree.

WannabeFree

Oh no

I hope things improve and you can fix the tree x

Suffolk_lass

I know, just getting rid of my frustration on here really. All is calm. Cheese on toast instead of a bit of meat and veg. My diet is suffering!

Karmacat

Oh drat. And many rude words.

At least you *do* have us on here, so that someone else really does know what you're going through

Agree with the healing properties of cheese on toast ...

Suffolk_lass

Haha, idea of Cheese on toast having healing properties - love it. Must get on with work today - too much to get through before Christmas!