A "cakey" weekend ...

sometimes life is hard and full of unfair dealings, where one just wants to escape and hide under the carpet. Part of our weekend was like that, when we were at a school concert saturday. None of the girls wanted to get out of bed, and particularely the oldest was not in the mood for playing in the school orchestra at all. In the concert break the Café was open, but when it was finally our turn, there was no more cake left!! SO - what to do? Well, I decided to make a layer cake myself when I came home, and so I did. It lifted the spirit of everyone, and if you want to get a bit of the taste as well, I can descripe what is in the cake:

500 gram fresh, sweet, juicy danish strawberries
1/4 liter whipped cream
a teaspoon of vanilla sugar
6 - 8 tablespoons Bailey Irishcream
10 macaroons or more (mixed with the Baileys Irishcream)
3 sponges

On the top: icing and strawberries

You simply mix the whipped cream with strawberries cut in thin slices and put it in between the sponges, and add the "Bailey macaroons" in between. Make it some hours beforehand, put it in the fridge, and voila!
We had 1/4 leftover for today, and it was even better after one night in the fridge, yummy :-)

After having consumed 3/4 of the cake (!), we opened and looked into the huge package, which our youngest daughter, Selma, had brought with her home from school. On the outside she had written "For mummy, For daddy, For Mie, For the worlds sweetest family". Inside it was an abundance of produce from a whole year in school: All homemade books, some of them with history, some with stories from the old testament, some of them with numbers and figures. But all of them with beautifull drawings and neatly written letters. SO much energy and love and concentration put into each single page - she was so so proud to share it with us!

So - yes, in the end the weekend turned out to be much brighter than it looked like saturday morning - all with the help of a sweet strawberry cake ;-))

Have a sweet and fulfilled week - and remember to find time for a cup of coffee and a sweet :-)