A few weeks ago we celebrated my daughter's 2nd birthday. I tried out the cat cake from the Australian Woman's Weekly birthday cake book and I was pretty proud of my effort! The assembling and icing took much longer than I thought and getting the icing the right colours was a bit tricky as well.
Switzerland has amazing cheeses and one that I've been meaning to sample is a Vacherin Mont D'or. The cheese is only available from September to April and is moulded and ripened for about 3 weeks in a wooden box. I followed David Lebovitz's advice for baking the cheese and the result was a beautiful soft melted cheese that you spooned onto fresh bread. So delicious! My Swiss friend told me that it is quite common among Swiss people just to have cheese and bread as their dinner. She said that her mum would leave this cheese out at room temperature to ripen for a few hours before serving but the downside was that the whole house didn't smell so nice! I think it's such a great food for sharing that I'm taking one over to AD's place when we visit next week to have as part of our pre Christmas feast. Have a great weekend! MP
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