If there’s one thing you can expect from me, on my blog and in my books, it is cake.
Somehow I’ve managed to get half the internet to associate me with cake, and you know what??? I’m okay with that. That is the meaning of success. And, staying true to myself and my beliefs in life, I have a scene dedicated to cake in my upcoming debut, A Thousand Perfect Notes.
Now how would YOU like to make that cake?!!
My friend Alison from Wonderland Recipes has invented a recipe just for my book (!!) and I’m literally busting out of my skin with excitement for this collaboration, okay?! It is the best. All collabs pale in comparison to this because CAKE. (I’m so hAPPY, Alison, thank you!)
And this is actually a doubly special occasion because Alison’s cookbook is out today and it’s called A Literary Tea Party and it’s full of recipes from all your favourite books. It has recipes for Turkish Delight from Narnia, Queen of Hearts cupcakes from Alice in Wonderland, Eeyore’s birthday cake, Jo’s gingerbread from Little Women, and Tom Sawyer’s Jelly Doughnuts…just to name a few!!
Happy release day to A Literary Tea Party!!
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Tea and books: the perfect pairing. There’s nothing quite like sitting down to a good book on a lovely afternoon with a steaming cup of tea beside you, as you fall down the rabbit hole into the imaginative worlds of Alice in Wonderland, The Hobbit, and Sherlock Holmes . . .
Fire up your literary fancies and nibble your way through delicate sweets and savories with A Literary Afternoon Tea, which brings food from classic books to life with a teatime twist. Featuring fifty-five perfectly portioned recipes for an afternoon getaway, including custom homemade tea blends and beverages, you will have everything you need to plan an elaborate tea party. Cook up and enjoy:
Turkish Delight while sipping on the White Witch’s Hot Chocolate from The Chronicles of Narnia
Drink Me Tea with the Queen of Hearts’s Painted Rose Cupcakes from Alice in Wonderland
- recipe for a chocolate date fruitcake from A Thousand Perfect Notes, written by Alison Walsh
- a giveaway of Alison’s cookbook, A Literary Tea Party
- CAKE PHOTOS
- MY HEART BEING SO HAPPY
Chocolate Almond Fruitcake from A Thousand Perfect Notes
Guest post by Alison Walsh
I’ve been following Cait’s blog for years, so when I realised her first book and mine were coming out days apart, I shot her an email to see if she was interested in teaming up for a post. Since my book is a cookbook, I thought it would be fun to develop a recipe for one of the foods from her book and share it here on her blog. Not only did she say yes, but she had a food suggestion straight out of the gate: chocolate almond date fruitcake!
In A Thousand Perfect Notes, Beck and August indulge in rich slices of chocolatey, almondy date cake in a coffee shop on a weekday afternoon while playing hooky. It’s one of the few simple, joyful moments in the book (we all know Cait loves to make her darlings suffer! 😉). I wanted a chance to make that simple, sunny afternoon a reality in my own kitchen, so I knew I’d found the food I wanted to make!
I started by comparing LOTS of fruitcake recipes. I’d never made one before, so I wanted to get a good sense of what made a fruitcake a fruitcake…beyond, y’know, having fruit in it. After I was sure of the basics, I read the scene in the coffee shop again and thought about the best way to make this fruitcake a faithful recreation of the one in the book.
I went with chocolate chunks rather than chips so they’d stay a little melty in the middle for a good while after baking, and I kept the date chunks pretty big to be sure they kept their chewy texture. I ground the almonds up like you commonly would for a fruitcake, but I made sure to sprinkle chunks of whole almond on top for that satisfying crunch. I also added orange zest to lighten and brighten the flavors. Since the fillings are so rich, I made sure to stay away from too much sugar in the batter. I used less sugar than I normally would for a cake and made half of it brown sugar for extra depth.
The final product was a huge success at my house! The topping and fillings are just the right size, so you get distinct moments of chocolate, date, and almond without them getting lost in too much cake. The ground almond helps keep the cake itself moist, and there’s just enough orange zest for a bit of complexity. I’ve already made it four times—we can’t get enough of it!
INGREDIENTS
1 cup flour
½ cup finely ground almonds
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
½ cup butter, softened
¼ cup white sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
2 eggs
½ tsp almond extract
¾ cup semisweet chocolate chunks
1 cup loosely packed chopped dates*
2 tsp orange jest
3 tbsp chopped almonds, for garnish
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350°F/176° In a small bowl, stir together the flour, ground almonds, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a standing mixer, beat together the butter and sugars on medium speed until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the almond extract.
- Gradually fold in the flour mix until combined. Fold in the chocolate, dates, and orange zest. Transfer the mix to a greased 9×5 loaf pan and spread out until flat. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. At the 15-minute mark, sprinkle your chopped almonds on top of the batter and gently press them down a little (you want them to adhere to the batter but not submerge).
- When fully baked, allow the cake to rest in the pan for 5-10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.
* You can buy pre-chopped dates, but I recommend buying whole pitted dates and chopping them yourself to achieve larger pieces. Cut each date in half lengthwise, then each half into 5 pieces.
Thanks so much for this recipe, Alison!
I literally haven’t stopped flailing about it (my family can attest) and I put my horrible baking skills to the test to make it too! Now mine…did not…turn out nearly as pretty as Alison’s. Which I blame a little bit on using mini chocolate chips instead of chocolate hunks so it was chocolate smoosh. Mine basically looks like the ugly rustic weird cousin.
I shall stick to writing tragic novels, not baking wow.
But, despite mine looking ugly, it was delicious. Everyone in my house RAVED about the flavours. Alison is a cake magician.
Seeing something from my bok come to life like this was just…ahh! It was so exciting! I shall geek out about it and never stop! Please definitely go check out Alison’s cookbook because she is a master.
Don’t forget A Thousand Perfect Notes is out in just TWO DAYS.
So excited!!!
Insert laugh/cry emoji here. SO UGLY, CAIT. STICK TO WRITING.
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Oh my gosh I so want to try making this cake! I’m not so into dark fruitcakes…I mean, they’re okay in small doeses at Christmas…but this looks lovely! and I am planning to do some baking with a friend this weekend and there are a coupe other things I want to make with almond flour in them enough to merit a trip to the supermarket (it’s five minutes walk away and I haven’t been for months). I’ve always wanted to try the rich chocolate cake from Night of Cake and Puppets, or the goulash from daughter of smoke and bone. nd I got my shipping for ATPN today and I’m SO SO EXCITED TO READ IT
It IS so lovely and kind of a variation from a typical fruit cake which is super special and also delicious.😍 And omg agreed about going to that cafe in Daughter of Smoke and Bone. Actually the food in Strange the Dreamer was also incredible??? Laini Taylor wants us all to just devour our novels clearly.
SO EXCITED. IT’S SO SOON.😍
I would love to try that cake someday! It might be a while as my oven is on the fritz… Oh well. My dream is to one day attend the Hogwarts beginning of term feast and eat all of the food
Omg agreed about the Hogwarts feasts. They are life goals. 😍😍
Eeek it sounds and looks absolutely lush!
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SO delicious! Alison is so talented!
COOK?? I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS. HA HA HA. I certainly have zero talent in cooking or I’m just too lazy learning how to cook. Maybe both.
Well I can’t think of one specific bookish food but I’d like to eat faerie food?? Those yummy enchanted thingies that can trap you in their realm. I can’t really think of something else right now.
Anywaay, I would love to taste this cake because I’m a chocolate addict. Aaand, TWO DAYS CAIT. TWO DAYS MORE TO GO I’M FLAILING. I’m already preparing my heart for the emotional torture your book will bring. My tears are ready to fall to form an ocean or something. CONGRATULATIONS. GOOD LUCK. EXCELSIOR. BYE FOR NOW.
-R
Cooking is absolutely wizardry and no one can convince me otherwise. 😂 And omg not the faerie food, Rain!! You’ll dance forever and never leave the courts!!😂
TWO MORE DAYS, RAIN. HOW DO I HANDLE THIS. I’M CLIMBING THE WALLS.
This sounds absolutely DELICIOUS!
I always [okay, sometimes I don’t] add a picture of munches mentioned in the book to my review of said book so.. I’m not at all a stranger to baking / cooking bookish-themed food, haha. I think the best thing I ate so far, was the jollof rice that was mentioned in Children of Blood and Bone – it was sooooo good.
But now I really feel like giving this awesome cake a try as well. Sounds right up my alley since I enjoy baking way more than actual cooking!
That’s absolutely the best that you do make a lot of bookish-mentioned-food!! It’s like the ultimate compliment to a book, I think?!😂 LOVE IT.
Cait, want these cakes like right now! They look so yummy and the fact that one of them is based on your book? Certainly making me hungry 😀
I have zero talent in baking though but I like to read or watch these kind of recipes 😛
It made ME hungry just writing up the post. 😂 But like the fact that it’s based on my book is just FREAKING MAKING MY DAY!!
Ah, i remember that scene in the book! That cake sounded so yummy!
And it looks even yummier in the pictures. <3
omg so glad you enjoyed that part of the book too.😍😍
That looks yummy!
And a book full of bookish food recipes! Too cool. I’ll have to get it for my niece.
Sooooo amazing! Alison is a book chef wizard!
This is so cool! I wish every book came with a cookbook (or a chef?), haha. I really want the honeycakes that are constantly mentioned in The Scorpio Races. 😍
I’m going to go with the “comes with a chef”😂 Because as we can see I am not a great cook HOWEVER I want to eat all the bookish foods!! (Also I’m going to make the Scorpio Races cakes with my sister when she’s around sometime!! I can’t eat honey though, so it’ll be more: make them and cry.)
BOOKISH FOOD. BOOKISH COOKBOOK. WANT. I can’t even cook that well and I still want this.
As for bookish foods I wanted to try . . . literally everything ever served in a Redwall book. Lembas and Beorn’s waybread from LOTR/The Hobbit. Toffeefruit from The Magician’s Nephew. Also, if food from my own books count, all the Greek/Mediterranean food I wrote about in The Way of the Pen.
I actually tried Turkish delight twice, once from a super cheap/fake place and once from a place that actually knew what they were doing. (I took a class on C.S. Lewis and the professor is absolutely wonderful.) When made right, it’s good, but not I-would-sell-my-siblings-for-this amazing.
Anyway. This recipe looks delicious, the cookbook looks fabulous, and now I”m hungry.
ISN’T IT JUST THE BEST THING EVER?!? All food mentioned in books should come with a recipe because honestly I get so hungry reading them. 😂 And YES. I’d love to try some LOTR or Hobbit food! I feel like the Hobbits would be insanely good and tasty cooks.
I would still totally sell-my-siblings-for-Turkish-Delight-and-a-crown tbh. I mean I’ve had some and it didn’t change my life, BUT also no witch popped up to give me a deal, so who knows. Would try again.
Oh my gosh this is SO AWESOME!!! I’ve always wanted to try the food from books! I have to get this book and make all the food now haha! Or get my sister to do it for me cause she likes to cook haha! Thanks so much for sharing this amazing cookbook and recipe this will be the first and probably only recipe book I buy haha!!
Making sisters cook for us is ALWAYS a good idea!!😂
I want to eat the Harry Potter food. I especially like how it magically appears on the tables. Everything I bake turns out really, really ugly. I blame it on living at high altitude because baking doesn’t work when you’re a mile above sea level, but mostly I’m just a terrible baker.
Honestly my favourite part of the Harry Potter food too is how it magics itself there and away.😂So convenient. Would love my house to do that.
I am definitely going to be trying this cake! I’m usually not a fan of almonds (or nuts in general, really), but since it’s going to be paired with absolutely delicious chocolate (it’s chocolate, it HAS to be delicious), I’m 100% willing to give almonds another try!
But, my cooking skills are limited to spaghetti, burgers, and macaroni and cheese, so I’m gonna leave the fruitcake-baking to my chef-wannabe little sister and miracle-worker-in-the-kitchen mom.
You could leave the almonds off the top! It does have almond meal in it, but I don’t think you’d be able to specifically taste that around the flour? Maybe?😂 Depends on your tastebuds. but YAS CHOCOLATE.😂
CHOCOLATE IS LIFEEEE
xDD And I’ll definitely take that into consideration as I blackmail my family into making this for me! Thank you!
I’ve always wanted to try November Cakes! But I think the recipe required using a bread paddle attachment or something like that? I don’t have a stand-up mixer, but my MIL does. Maybe this November I’ll try them out at her house. =) Great post, and the cake looks fabulous and super yummy!!
Oh I want to try November cakes too!!! I know the recipe is on Maggie Stiefvater’s blog I think, but like…I can’t eat honey.😂Allergic. So that’s a TINY problem haha.
Oh my gosh, YUM. Developing recipes for foods mentioned in books is one of the nerdiest and most bookish things a person could do and I love it??? I can’t tell you how often my family has either found or created recipes for foods in Harry Potter for various Harry Potter theme parties. It’s so much fun. xD
I know right?!? Like this is the actual best thing ever and Alison is a genius. Move over fan art we have FAN FOOD.😂
There should be recipes for all delicious sounding book foods. Like I want to try real butterbeer, ambrosia and nectar (though that would probably kill me), and Kerch waffles. Although I probably couldn’t cook all this considering my cooking skills are pretty much only good with ramen and even that gets messed up sometimes 😕
So true. There should be like little cookbooks in the back of all books.😂And I would absolutely love to eat waffles with Nina because I feel like she would only source the BEST waffles.
I want this cookbook!! That is such a good idea! I totally want to make all the food from my favorite books! And that fruitcake looks delicious- and I don’t even like fruitcake! 😂😂 But I really want to try this one! (Good job, Alison!)
This collaboration post was fabulous! I hope you do more that involve food! 😋 And I’m actually a pretty good cook so I’ll definitely be making the fruitcake from your book, Cait!!
This was the actual most fun collab I’ve ever done ahh!! And I hope you enjoy the recipe when you make it!
I am going to get my sister to bake this right away! 😈 (She’s a baker; literally, next year she’s going to college for baking)
GOING TO COLLEGE FOR BAKING!!!! YOUR SISTER IS MY NEW FAVOURITE !!!!
I like baking, and I’m not bad at it if we’re judging on taste. Not so good if we’re judging on how it all looks. A bookish food I’d like to try? Has to be November Cakes from The Scorpio Races.
Lol lol I relate.😂I mean look at mine…the ugly cousin. But at least my family vouched that it TASTED good.😂
the collab post of a LIFETIME. now i’m hungry & extra want to read your book.
also i want to eat e v e r y t h i n g from alice’s adventures in wonderland so i’m thrilled to hear there’s an alice recipe in this book!
I’M SO GLAD. I THINK YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY EAT CAKE THAT MAKES YOU SHRINK AND GROW. 10/10 WHAT COULD GO WRONG
THIS. IS. AMAZING. Not only does the cake look amazingly delicious and it is most definitely going to be a summer project for me to bake it, but the cookbook is so cool? I’ve only ever seen a Harry Potter themed cookbook, not a literary one. I’m in loveeeee, this post is my favorite. 😉
Ahhh I’m so glad you’re going to try it!! I hope you love it! And isn’t it cool to have a Literary themed cookbook out?! Alison is a genius.
Oh my god that looks sooooooooooo good!!! Totally gonna buy the cookbook! I happen to love cooking! And books. 😀
IT IS SO AMAZING!! Alison is a cooking genius!
askldjfhksafdkcj i don’t know what a date is but I’m going to try and convince my momther to give this a try because dang if there isn’t anything i love more than food from books
Agreeed. Food in books is the actual best thing and what on earth is the point of a book, if it doesn’t make us hungry!?
Wow, this sounds like the one cookbook I might actually want to buy! I don’t really cook much, and reading recipes is one of the greatest reading challenges I have yet faced, but I LOVE it when books are full of interesting food. It is one of my favourite things, and if one thing could get me excited about cooking it would be literature based foods! I have always loved the descriptions of food in books like Narnia, ASOUE, Harry Potter, and The Tale of Despereaux. I appreciate the attention to the food because some books don’t pay attention to food and it’s just sad. But as for the cookbook, I have concerns for the Alice in Wonderland based food because of all the growing and shrinking involved. Book food can sometimes be a little bit dangerous. I mean, look at Peter Pan, even cake can be sinister.
I am so excited for the cake in your book!
You should totally look into it!! I got so enthused after making this and went on to make ice cream sandwiches.😂 I mean not that it’s related, but I usually hate the kitchen so like!?? Alison! YOU’RE SO INSPIRING.😂
The food in Harry Potter would be AMAZING.
Aaah that is so cool and both cakes look delicious!
SO DELICIOUS. Alison is a baking genius!!
BRB GONNA GO MAKE A CAKE
GOOD. I HOPE YOU LOVE IT.😂
Of course there is cake, it wouldn’t be a Cait story without it! 😉
Exactly right!? If there’s no cake, you’ll know it’s not my book.😂
Oooh this sounds good! I can do the lemon cakes from A Song of Ice and Fire pretty well. I’m a fairly decent baker, but I do screw up sometimes. I tried to make chocolate eclairs the other day, but they came out looking like pancakes and tasting like chalk.
I want to figure a recipe for first-week cookies from The Names They Gave Us, hummingbird cake from Rebel Belle, many of the goodies from Harry Potter and Lara Jean’s various cookies! I know some of these aren’t just fictional, but the first time I heard many of these types of cookies and cakes was from books.
Oh oh lemon cakes!! That would be amazing! And that’s awesome that you’re actually a good cook hahah, although I mean eclairs just sound really hard?! So I think you’re pretty wonderful to have a go at least!
Oh and Lara Jean’s “perfect chocolate chip” recipe?! I want it.
aHHHHHHH that sounds amazing!!! AND WHAT?!! A literary cookbook? <3 <3 <3 I need this in my life. Bless you, Allison.
ISN’T THIS THE BEST?! ALISON IS A GENIUS.
Oh this was such a cool idea! Although I think they look a lot like banana bread more than cake. XD But I’m sure they taste good. 😛
I can’t really think of any specific food from a book, but Megan’s grandmother’s tea shop in The Mother Daughter Book Club series sounds like a cool place I’d want to visit if I could. I love all of the characters in that series, and it would be so fun to hang out with them there. 🙂
Haha no…bananas? It’s a fruit cake! 😂
AhhhHHhH I really want to make this now it looks so good and also I can’t WAIT for your book to come out eeeeeeeeeeee i must make this and read it together
Eating this plus reading my book would be like THE MOST BEST AND PERFECT THING.😂💛💛
Honestly your cake looks exactly how mine would turn out… I do NOT understand how people can make these gorgeous baked creations. Mine usually just fall apart…
I don’t like dates (AT ALL), but I think my Mum would really like this, so I might try making it for her birthday or something. Or just like, substituting the dates for something I like. Because other than that it looks SOOO GOOD. I like the IDEA of dates, and I always think everything with dates in it looks delicious. I just… don’t ACTUALLY like how they taste. 😂
I know right?! Alison is AMAZING. 😂 And so so talented, an actual cake wizard. And haha fair enough about dates! I do love them.😂
I love bookish recipes. My favorite book in a Narnia one that was in part created by the stepson of the author. I tried making Turkish Delight once and while it was good, it was messy to make!
I want to try some of the food from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It takes place in the early 1900’s so they used stale bread a lot, but I wonder if the recipes can be updated?
Oh oh I kind of want to make Turkish Delight someday too?! Probably difficult when my family doesn’t use sugar much but hehe. It LOOKS delicious. Would totally sell my family for Turkish Delight. 😂😂
Ugh…this looks so good! Can’t wait to read your book, Cait!!!! Just 2 more days xx
IT WAS JUST WONDERFUL! AND OMG I’M SO HAPPY ABOUT MY BOOK.😍
I’m not a huge fan of cake (sweet stuff in general is not really my thing. i do realize this is unacceptable), but this cake seems good! I’ll have to try to make a vegan version of it when I’m in the vicinity of an oven 😅 I’d call myself a decent cook, but… well, maybe I can make a vegan panna cotta, but I also once burnt instant ramen, so who knows
Noooooo the CAKE CRIES FOR YOU. 😭😂And haha, I mean, there are a ton of things I can make well too, BUT I also have boiled water dry so. Maybe we won’t be winning any chef shows, right? 😂
I’m hungry and craving this cake right now, thanks a lot Cait! 😉 Congratulations on the publication of your book by the way! <3
Thank you so so much!! I’M ALL OVER THE MOON WITH EXCITEMENT!😍
Ooh, that cake looks really nice 😀 I’m not that good at baking though… seriously I’m a walking hazard in the kitchen, I keep dropping things and spilling things everywhere, it’s terrible XD
I’m so excited for your book! I was thinking of buying myself a book to celebrate the end of my exams, I’ll be seeing if I can find your book at my local bookstore 🙂
Eeeeeep I will be so grateful if you end up reading my book!😍 THANK YOU.
Your debut comes out so soon (!!) and also that cookbook looks fabulous. This is off-topic but thank you so much for always telling people to read the Raven Cycle because that made me read it and now it is probably my favorite series ever. Also I now have like a life sized plastic raven probably intended for outside decoration in my room and her name is Chainsaw. (I told my brother he’s just jealous ’cause he doesn’t have one. :))
Aww I’m so so glad you picked up The Raven Cycle! OH THIS IS A FANTASTIC DAY. IT IS ONLY THE BEST SERIES EVER.
I’ve always wanted to try the November cakes from the Scorpio Races by Maggie Steifvater. They sounded so great, and then she put a recipe at the end of her paperback, and I died looking at the scrumptious pictures online. This recipe sound delicious! I don’t really bake things, but you guys are making me want to!!! Congrats on your book release!
yes yes same!! And since there’s a recipe we should totally do it sometime righT?! I’m hoping to do it with my sister in November! I can’t eat honey though (allergic haha) so it’ll be more like make-them-and-cry-while-someone-else-eats them. 😂
Yes, we should do it. Nothing is going to stop us!!!!! (Except honey allergies. Yikes.) (Honestly, I find honey a little too sweet and not very palatable, but Finn loved them so and also SCORPIO RACES.) <3 <3 <3
I always want to try to make a rainbow cake, because whenever I crave it, I can’t find it anywhere to buy, but I’m … not very skilled at baking, to say the least. I might try out this recipe, though, it looks so good & I love dates. And your cake turned out great!! 🙂
I seriously want to make a rainbow cake too??!? Like how awesome would that be ahhhh!!!
Congratulations on both of your books! I don’t get over here at all because I’m focusing on helping little blogs and I don’t even have enough time to get around to all of them to read and comment and you certainly don’t need my piddlety help with your world domination. Ha ha. I hope you have settled into your new digs by now and are happier about things than you were when I was last over here. 💜
Thanks about my books! And aw, I’m sorry the numbers is a problem for you. 😔 I just hope I haven’t said anything offensive to turn you off my blog.
I’ll try to stop by now and again. I’m doing some music again and that has also cut into my blog hopping time. 💜
No pressure! (That’s awesome you’re doing music!)
Totally going to try and make this cake! Honestly it sounded amazing. I don’t mind healthy-sounding cakes. IT’S STILL CAKE.
ALL CAKE IS GOOD CAKE. (I mean, unless it has beetroot in it. I draw the lines.😂I had to write a whole scene to mock that.😂)
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH I NEED TO TRY THIS I WILL TRY THIS SOON. My mom likes my food, but I seriously don’t consider myself a cook, I prefer cakes and cupcakes and anything/everything that has to do with that. Although, it’s been a while since I don’t bake something…. And, well..I’M EXCITED NOW. And I’m definitely checking out Alison’s book, she seems like the perfect human being bringing all the literary recipes to real life *-*
YOU SHOULD. IT’S JUST DELICIOUS. My parents were so stoked with it and we’ve even made it a second time!!
That is a very good cake. I’ve eaten two pieces of it already! 😉 Congrats, and happy book birthday! <3 <3 <3
AHHH I’m so glad you tried it!!!
Oh dang this looks so yummy!! I’m super excited for Alison’s book – thanks for sharing it! My library has it on order YAS!!
I’d love to go to the candy room in Willy Wonka omg especially if it’s like the Gene Wilder one. And also fire shrimp & red coast bugs from The Long Way to A Small Angry Planet; absolutely everything from the manga Delicious in Dungeon (ice cream made from swinging ingredients in a jar through ghosts!!); chocolate frogs and fizzing whizzbees and Lupin’s chocolate from Harry Potter. I could really use some of that choc today! Ugh food food is good 😀
Oh oh that’s great!! I hope you get a chance to try some of the recipes! And yesss I want to go into Willy Wonka’s factory. Provided I’m not one of the kids who nearly dies lmao.
Oooooh this looks soooo yummy! I think it’s fair to say that everybody loves cake. They just do. Because cake is life.
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And if they DON’T then we get worried, right?!😂😂
I’ve always wanted to try Dauntless chocolate cake! And omg a literary cookbook is the only cookbook I didn’t even know I needed. But I’m an awful cook, so maybe I DO need a lot of cookbooks…but if I ever do try to make anything it would most definitely be something bookish xD
DOESN’T THE DAUNTLESS CAKE LOOK AMAZING?!?!? Alison is pure genius!!
omg she has a recipe for dauntless chocolate cake on her website and it looks SO GOOD
The fruit cake looks great. I’m going to try to perfect this so I can make it for my neighbors this coming Christmas. It definitely looks much better than most of the fruit cakes I get. And from the ingredients, I’m quite sure it tastes better too.
SO SO GOOD!! My dad begged for us to make it again he loved it so much 😂 Definitely a better fruitcake recipe than the normal ones! Alison is a genius!
I made it once, and it was very good indeed! So I blogged about it…
(https://thetreasurewithinblog.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/literary-teatime-chocolate-date-fruitcake-from-a-thousand-perfect-notes/)
But it was so good, in fact, that I made it again, and I made double – so that I could share the yumminess with my grandparents!
I love literary food so much – Hogwarts feasts, all the food from Redwall, this cake, jam tarts, and all the other delicious things – give me all the food!
This makes me unbelievably happy ahhh!! 💛💛