Birthday Week End

I spent my brothers birthday cooking him entirely home cooked food. Friday some friends came over to help to bake him some cake, and Saturday morning was spent baking more cake for him.

His obsession with Jaffa Cakes created him a couple of giant jaffa cakes. My friends helped to bake these.

They had some resemblance to a jaffa cake. They had cake, jelly thing, and chocolate. Don't know why he looks so scornful? 

His epic chocolate cup cakes were baked because we discovered we couldn't put candles in chocolate. And you need to have candles on a birthday cake! It's not a birthday cake otherwise... it becomes an ordinary cake!

The tall candles were a fire hazard, so we used sparklers... they wouldn't light. But he got candles.  And that half of a potato on a plate, mum has this obsession with it to see how much it will sprout. Just gross.

We made pasta. That was fun. The pasta machine is so much fun! You put it in and it just gets longer and longer and longer. It is pretty awesome. 

So that was my brothers birthday. A lot of cake was eaten. A lot of pasta was thrown at each other. It was good fun. Happy Birthday!