After dim sum, we drove to Charlie's in Morley to get our quality Italian goodies. I absolutely love love love the pancetta there!! Marissa and Teresa described to Sarah and I how to create an Italian dessert with a pandora cake, so armed with all our supplies, we headed home to Marissa and Teresa's place and enjoyed some pastries with our affogatos.
After seeing Marissa off to work, Sarah and I headed to her place and started creating our Italian dessert for tonight's dinner. We got a pandora cake, which is basically a huge giant muffin!! We had to cut the top off and scoop out the inside and fill it up with icecream. The base of our cake was wonky so it wouldn't stand up correctly. We had to cut the bottom off and fill it upside down! As per Marissa's instructions, we mixed some vanilla ice cream with honey coated almonds and Kirsch liqueur, which we stuffed into the hole in the cake. We covered it up and put it into the freezer to set. Sarah did the cake...I was busy defrosting her freezer to make room for the giant thing =P
Being such beautiful weather outside, we decided to eat dinner out in the courtyard. We had to make a quick visit to Bunnings to get a little outdoors table and some gardening supplies (for our gardening). We got back home to set up the table and rummaged around for some ingredients to make a dish to contribute for the dinner since our guests were bringing something they'd made.
We had onions, potatoes and red lentils, which Sarah made into a delicious lentil curry. This went great with corn chips and the curries that Noel and Fleurette brought with them. Conan joined us outside while we had our nibblies - smoked salmon, cheeses, sheep fetta, pancetta and wine - and later, our dinner.
Our pandora cake tumbled over a few times when we tried to stand it up, so in the end I had to support it by stabbing a teaspoon into its side like a picture frame stand. At least it stood up!!
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