Fishy cakes

Cakes are easy to transport and easy to eat with fingers, thus being the ideal food for picnics. This cake is not sweet but brings the salty and sardiney (is there a word like that?) taste to the feast on the sand or wherever you've laid your blankets.

Of course, these an also be eaten in the house. Try crumbling into a glass and covering with some herby mayonnaise. Not bad at all.

Sardine cake

2 tins of sardine (oil and lemon sauce)
100g grated gruyère
a couple of handfuls of green pitted olives chopped
3 eggs
2,5dl flour
2tl baking powder  +  1tl baking soda
1 dl milk
3rkl chopped chives
salt and pepper

Preheat the oven to 175 C.
Pour the oil from the sardines to a cup. Chop the olives and sardines, grate the cheese.

Mix the eggs, flour, baking powder and baking sod. Pour in the oil of the sardines and the milk.
Mix the cheese and seasoning.
Add the sardines, chive and olives and mix well.

Pour into a bread tin and bake in the oven for 45min. Let the cake cool before taking it out of the tin.

Angry Bird goes cakey

One of Toto's favourite toys is a little Angry Bird. It makes birdy lauhging sounds when the right button is pushed and that sound often tells where to find the little rascal. It was quite clear what his birthday cake should look like.

I don't actually know how well you know these characters - they are from this game by the Finnish company Rovio. In the game the bad little piggies have stolen the eggs from the birds, who as a result have gotten extremely angry and go after the piggies for vengeance. Sounds quite silly doesn't it ? But all the children seem to love both the game and the related merchandise.

I'm not artistically talented at all (remember my lemon tart), so it was my husband doing the decorations (again). Not bad I'd say. Even though I forgot to clean the rest of the icing sugar on the top...

Under the marzipan layer the cake had alternating layers of vanilla sponge cake, cacao sponge cake,  mascarpone cream and chocolate ganache cream. 300g of chocolate and 250g of mascarpone made sure that this is not a cake for those on a diet, but then... how often can you celebrate the 2 year birthday of your youngest son ?

Yep, you guessed right - the same argument is valid for every birthday and in our family we celebrate birthdays 5 times every year + once for the cat.