Norths 7th Birthday

Easy, get Saadat to bring back the Beemer.

That's a good point. Saadat has upgraded machinery since then. Time for a new lap record.

He still has to paint the car though.

Vegan chocolate cake? :)

Battenberg with extra thick marzipan on the outside
Stollen (With marzipan core)
Napoleanshat (basically marzipan again)

Suggest that might be a job for after the lap....

Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte.

Or a Rum Baba.

Seriously tho, do you have that Guinness cake recipe?

Happy to make a Guinness chocolate cake (thankfully they transport quite easily by bike as long as you ice them at arrival).

I don't have a vegan cake recipe I'm afraid, but could give it a go if one is provided, could be awful due to my lack of experience.

And bring a block of marzipan for @Ramsaye

I don't have a vegan cake recipe I'm afraid

First wash and peel a medium sized vegan...

I don't have a vegan cake recipe I'm afraid, but could give it a go if one is provided, could be awful due to my lack of experience.

That would be awesome. :) Various people have made good cakes using this, including huge16 at the Bake-off a few years ago:

Chocolate Cake

225g/8oz caster sugar
4 dssps cocoa powder
1 tsp salt
225g/9oz plain white flour
85g/3oz plain wholemeal flour
1.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda
170ml/6fl oz vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla essence
4 tsp vinegar
350ml or 2/3 pint cold water

Choc icing:
55g/2oz margarine
4tbsp soya milk
140g/5oz sugar
30g/1oz cocoa powder, sieved
1 tsp vanilla essence

Decoration:
50g/2oz plain chocolate

1. Mix thoroughly the sugar, cocoa, salt, flour and bicarbonate of soda in
   a mixing bowl.
   
2. Add the oil, vanilla essence and vinegar and pour cold water over the mixture. Beat well with a fork.
   
3. Pour into two greased sandwich tins. Cook at 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4 for 30 minutes or until the cake springs back lightly when pressed. Cool thoroughly.
   
4. Make the icing: Combine the first four ingredients in a saucepan and bring them to the boil slowly, stirring constantly.
   
5. Boil for 1 minute.
   
6. Remove from the heat and beat until cold (you can do this in a bowl of cold water, but let it cool a bit first or the icing sticks to the bottom of the pan). Mix in the vanilla essence.
   
7. Sandwich the cakes together with a thin spread of hazelnut carobella and/or your favourite jam/fruit spread.
   
8. Put chocolate icing on the top, then flakes of chocolate (just cut the chocolate really finely with a sharp knife and/or grate the chocolate).
   

^that sounds quite nice. Needs a big dollop of clotted cream on the side with maybe a bit of marzipan for decoration.

Oliver, I love and respect you but nothing good has ever been made with margarine in it.

As for marzipan; keep it on the side, away from the cakes.

All cakes welcome, see you next week. I have been told my skin looks burnished. Yes I had to look it up too.

Come with a smile and ready to TT.

Hold on hold on, there is someone on the forum called Doctor Cake?

1. Does @cake know?
   
2. Is he related to Doctor Love
   ?
   

Can't wait to see the 7th birthday times. I'd like to see someone best sven04's time!

Take lots of pics etc! I miss that part of the world.

wow 7 years...

Guiness obviously

Hold on hold on, there is someone on the forum called Doctor Cake?

Doctor Cake has been on the forum for a while, I believe she may even have been to Norths before.

I don't believe cake knows, and I don't believe he is a real cake.

I also don't believe Doctor Love is a real doctor and I have reported him to the BMA.

Mobbs confirmed for 2030
We will speak to him via some sort of web related mechanism...

Oh, Doctor Love is a real Doctor

He's got the potion and the motion
When I'm feeling low and my love starts to flow
He's got the power every hour
He's the reason why my face is all a-glow!

Just one kiss on his lips is like taking vi-tamin C
You can't imagine what the doctor does to me!
Doctor Love!

He can cure my every pain, he can make me well again, Doctor Love!
He ain't got no competition, only HE writes my prescription, Doctor Love!

Wow, assuming that there will be a 22nd birthday drinks that's great news.

Yeah, but by then some of us won't be contactable via some sort of web related mechanism, we'd need to hold a fucking seance.

The LFGSS ladeez are moving/visiting for their August drinks to come and wish you all happy birthday! Looking forward to it!

deffo a moment on Tuesday for toasting bon chance to @fussballclub for the PBP, whether or not he graces us with his presence, may the Norths be with his attempt, ☺

totally with you on the marzi viewpoint @Arvy., it's all about the butter, which can be happily left outside of the fridge, which then enables it to be as spreadable as a porn star, ☺

(apologies for the analogy / metaphor, for anybody offended by such images!)