Carrot & Apple Cake

Inspired and very similar to the carrot apple loaf on Averie Cooks, the carrot and apple cake I have just made is pretty tasty. I have changed Averie's recipe slightly - using slightly different ingredients & measurements. Plus measurements in cups just annoy me when you only have one cup measurer... so here is my anglicised version!

I took the risk of cutting it before it had properly cooled, which meant wobbly cake and could have been disastrous, but for the warm slice on my plate, it was so worth it. It doesn't need any icing or anything, it's lovely and moist and the added carrot and apple and lack of butter class it is healthy, yes?

Katie's Actual Birthday at Hudson's, Putney

So on Katie's actual birthday we got up and had cake for breakfast. Yum yum yum. I told you there was a lot of cake! Mum, Dad and Nanna met us at Katie's flat and she eventually made up her mind as to where she wanted to go for lunch, and decided on somewhere she said she runs past a lot (marathon in training, again!) in Putney, called Hudson's.

Clearly it was popular as when we got there 'sans réservation' they told us to come back in half an hour, so we had a drink (alcoholic and not) at the pub down the road. We went back to Hudson's and basked in all its Halloween decorated glory. Our favourite decoration had to be the bat attached to the fan on the ceiling. Hello bat flying around the ceiling in circles!

Fly little bat!!

Katie's Birthday in Clapham

So, last weekend my big sister added another year to her age (but she's not that old ... yet!) so I headed home for the weekend. (And I took my laptop, which is now fixed, yay, so expect some more blogs if I'm not too busy planning my life for when I graduate!). I managed to find a sneaky fast train home, so was back half an hour faster than normal and enjoyed a lovely evening with my family. Even if it did involve me claiming that Katie's birthday present was the lift I gave her at 2am so she didn't have to drive.

On Saturday, we spent some time in Berkhamsted in the morning, I went to see my friends at the computer shop - "Oh yes, it's you with the pink computer!" - and we stopped at the King's Arms for a warming drink, and some cake. Hot chocolates, coffees, carrot cake and coffee and walnut cake.

Lots of cake, coffe and chocolate