I don't know where we're going, but we know where we are? (Part whatever)

Toothachey.

Just why.

Very tired today. Took the dog for a walk. Now out having a coffee.

My favourite "Deborah" song from Dave Edmunds:

There's a girl living in this town

She's a fox and she knows it well

All the fellows for miles around want to get her but they never will

Just to have a girl with so much class

They'd crawl a mile over broken glass

And she'd let em do it just for a game

Deborah's her name

Deborah

Heart breaking love making connoisseur

Deborah

Deborah's her name

Looking at my schedule for the week, nothing I need to be apprehensive of.. no health care / dental appointments, nothing I need to get, nowhere I need to be, no birthdays, social engagements, last minute shopping or anything…. Continue my Christmas shopping if the fancy takes me….but otherwise I think I’ll settle on having an enjoyable one…

One of my Facebook 'friends ' has just posted photos of her Christmas tree and decorations, seriously, ffs, I might have to pour another glass. 🙄🙄🙁

but it's so perty

Frustrated. Cake broke apart when I removed it from the form. Probably didn't wait long enough for it to cool down. Broke down the middle though, so the halves are at least salvageable. Just finished putting the chocolate icing on and removed a slice for "quality control" 😁 Will post a picture & recipe later, if ye want.

A bit too chocolatey for my taste, the cocoa powder I used was probably a bit too intense and overpowers the cinnamon a little, but it's definitely reminiscent to how my mom used to make it.

Here's the recipe, by the way:

Red Wine Cake

(As per my late mom)

Ingredients:

• 5 eggs
• 300 g butter
• 300 g sugar
• 2 packages vanilla sugar (I used two small tea spoons of vanilla extract, should have the same effect)
• 1.5 tea spoons cocoa
• 1.5 tea spoons cinnamon
• 150 g chocolate crumbles or flakes ( in German Schokoladen-Streusel)
• 300 g flour
• 1 package baking powder (16g)
• 1/8 litre (125ml) dry red wine
• Fat and breadcrumbs for form

Preparation:

• Stirr eggs, butter, sugar and vanilla sugar with electric mixer
• Add cocoa, cinnamon and chocolate crumbs
• Add flour and baking powder
• Lastly add red wine
• Grease the form well and cover with bread crumbs (this dough loves to stick to the form and breaks easily)
• Bake in pre-heated oven
• Normal oven appr. 200 0 C ; convection oven appr. 180 0 C Duration appr. I h 15 and 1 h 30 depending on the oven
• Test with wooden stick. If nothing clings to the stick and the cake smells likes Christmas with chocolate, it should be done.

I still need some for the second attempt I'm going to do later this week 😁

I remember darina Allen saying that sugar nowadays is sweeter than yrs ago and they have had to adjust old recipes to reduce sugar quantities.

Im gonna hava a whack of that...sounds lovely

One bit of advice. Just use regular cocoa powder, no need to go for some sort of dedicated baking cocoa. Found that out the hard way...