5 sleeps to go- Christmas cake...

The internet, particularly Facebook, seems to be full of cake. If it isn’t cake then it’s kittens, sometimes even kittens and cake together. We all seem to be so preoccupied with cake that most other things pale into insignificance, particularly at this time of year as we approach the winter celebration.

Of course there are some exceedingly good cakes to be had at Christmas - mince pies (are they cake?), Dundee cake (is that just for Christmas?), those stollen things that you get from Lidl, Gingerbread houses (isn’t that biscuit?), good old traditional fruit-heavy Christmas cake, and of course the chocolate Yule log.

Quite how the Yule log changed from being a huge chunk of wood which burned for the twelve days of Christmas into a chocolate covered Swiss roll with a plastic robin sticking out of one end is beyond me. Was it Daren Brown I wonder? In a word I’d sum the whole thing up as ‘disgusting’. To be honest it looks like something that the Caganer might deliver. Yes, I’m not a fan of the Yule log. In fact when it comes to cake generally – well frankly, I don’t give a damn (so sorry Mary Berry).

When I eat a slice it’s generally okay, but it hardly fills you up does it? And as for those silly cup cake things… well, they smell of air, taste of air, look like air, and are full of air. No, give me something a little more substantial; a nice pork pie or a sausage roll – even a slice of quiche… so long as we can call it cheese and onion flan. I’m more of a pie man than a cake man and when it comes down to it - let THEM eat cake and not me.

After all, a cake isn’t just for Christmas… unlike a kitten.