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Pimms Cake for Boozy Bakes - Clandestine Cake Club

3/8/2014

 
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This week was my monthly Clandestine Cake Club which meant it was time to find a new recipe to try. I'd chosen the theme of Boozy Bakes because we were meeting at the Unthank Arms, a pub in Norwich. It was a little bizarre really, because I don't drink. Not for any specific reason other than I don't like the taste and I figure my body has enough to deal with, with the ME, without me adding more things for it to fight.

I spotted this recipe for a Pimms Cake in the Sainbury's Magazine. Pimms is about the only alcohol I do drink, probably because it's light, fruity and I water it down with a lot of lemonade.

The cake turned out to be really easy and very yummy - I skipped the meringue buttercream. Frankly it's a lot of faff and I don't think it tastes any better than the normal butter icing I make. It went down really well and was very refreshing on the warm summer evening.
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The rest of the cakes at the Club were delicious - I couldn't pick a favourite; but I really enjoyed the ginger beer and rhubarb cake, the pina colada cake and both the chocolate and stout/Guiness cakes.

Now I'm craving cake again....
Claire Wade is the winner of the Good Housekeeping Novel Competition and author of The Choice. She was bed bound for six years with severe ME, trapped in a body that wouldn't do what she wanted. She now writes about people who want to break free from the constraints of their lives, a subject she's deeply familiar with.

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    I'm an author, disability activist, winner of the Good Housekeeping First Novel Competition and The EABA for Fiction 2020 and founder of Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses (ADCI).


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