Baking Embargo

Phew, what a week!

We have managed to squeeze in a birthday, 2 birthday parties, a major family visit, a picnic, 25 miles of walking, a cooking class and several meals out. I feel like my mind has just caught up with my body!

It has been a brilliant week. My maternal Grandmother is visiting from down south and we have been celebrating her arrival and belated birthday, along with my gorgeous hubbie's birthday too. I have managed to use this week as an excuse (though do i really need one?) to do a spot of baking. I have managed to make a total of 6 cakes and 2 breads. Brilliant. I have loved it. Our store cupboard is groaning under the weight of all the baked goodies and the freezer is packed. However, my poor family are all caked out. My darling hubby has laid down an embargo for a couple of weeks until we manged to chomp our way through a fig and honey cake, a carrot cake, apple spice muffins, garlic bread, cheese and chive bread, peach crumble cake, chocolate cake and a gorgeous poppy seed and lemon cake. I can feel our waistbands expanding as I write this! To make things worse, I keep seeing delicious recipes everywhere and am dying to try them all. For example I am desperado to try and make a sticky toffee pudding recipe that I picked up the other week. I wonder if I can use Easter as an excuse?

I do see his point though. Poor J has taken to saying cake and shaking his head (though I do want to point out that we do not feed our little man with cake everyday or very often)! There is sea of cake and we are trying to sail our way through it. Maybe we do need a week off from baking sweet treats so that we can work our way through it. Though I am now getting itchy fingers and am dying to get back into the kitchen and bake. I wonder what I can throw myself into?

I know, Pie anyone? I'd better make some more room in the freezer!