{"id":2679,"date":"2012-12-25T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T22:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2012-12-25T10:59:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T22:59:12","slug":"its-not-christmas-without-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=2679","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not Christmas without cake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=center><a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ccake_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ccake_small.jpg\" alt=\"The Cake\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ccake_small.jpg 450w, https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ccake_small-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year we thought we would try and make a Christmas cake.  Not sure why as I don&#8217;t even <em>like<\/em> fruit cake.  I think for me it was more about giving the icing a go.  So we found a cake recipe in the back of my cake decorating book and thought we&#8217;d give it a try.  And after 3.5 hours of cooking on a low heat it was ready.  <\/p>\n<p>Then after a day or two came the fun bit of putting on the icing.  A two step process &#8211; almond icing first and then royal icing next.  I have never used either before, and it was not as complicated as first thought.  But it was hard work trying to get it perfect and that is something I have not yet mastered.  Only time and practice I guess will get it perfect.  But I am pleased with the first attempt.  Oh, and I didn&#8217;t make the little characters on the top, obviously!<\/p>\n<p>And the cake itself?  Well it isn&#8217;t too bad, in fact those that have had it have said it is very nice.  So I guess we will use that recipe again next year and perhaps even try and make some little characters ourselves to put on the top out of icing too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year we thought we would try and make a Christmas cake. Not sure why as I don&#8217;t even like fruit cake. I think for me it was more about giving the icing a go. So we found a cake recipe in the back of my cake decorating book and thought we&#8217;d give it a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}