just popping in

Hi everyone,

I am just popping in to say that I have been in bed all week with some sort of flu, high temps, coughing and a spinning head. 

The spinning head is the worst as I can't read, can't get up for long or concentrate on anything.

I am forcing myself out of bed this afternoon because life goes on and I am making a birthday cake for a very special lady in our family who will be 101 - yes that is one hundred and one years old on Saturday! 

I posted here last year when VCH's grandmother- or Great Nana as she is known by the children turned one hundred and now 1 year later we are blessed to be celebrating her 101st birthday- amazing!

I volunteered to do the cake because if I make it we can eat it. 

So I am making a gluten free, sugar free cake for us that is also nut free for our niece who has a nut allergy.

There will be 30 plus people attending the party at a local restaurant on Saturday and so I am doing a three layered cake.

The bottom is a chocolate mud cake, the middle layer will be an orange cake and the top I am doing a cherry coconut cake. 

The whole cake will be iced in chocolate ganache so I needed to make cakes that would taste good covered in chocolate.

I am then going to decorate with chocolate and fresh berries.

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