turns four!

4 years.
FOUR years of blogging.
Can you lot believe it? I know I can't.
By the agency , I looked dorsum on all of CMCs birthday posts too realized I bring been celebrating the incorrect twenty-four hours all along. How ironic. July 24th is the right appointment , non the 27th or 26th!

But it's that fourth dimension of twelvemonth again. Time to reminisce too to live thankful that I made the determination to start this blog.
"Why did you lot start blogging/baking?" is i of the questions I larn asked the most , too I'm non certain I've e'er mentioned it hither before.
My writing isn't rattling practiced you lot see. Or it's non that it's bad (English isn't my get-go language) , I've simply been neglecting it. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot.
Anyway..
The matter is I'm yet non certain why I started baking or blogging. Before CMC , I baked 3 times a year. Tops! For real. And unremarkably the same recipe every time. So I never actually know what to respond when mortal asks me. People aspect to withdraw heed "I used to bake alongside my grandmother when I was a kid" or something similar that , but I can't actually enjoin that because it wouldn't live true.


Happy birthday ! You are i of the best choices I've e'er made. My life has changed thence much because of you lot (am I seriously talking to myself here?).
What improve agency to celebrate than alongside H2O ice cream cake?! I variety of cheated too bought H2O ice cream instead of making my ain , but larn ahead too brand your ain if you're upward for it. And I must enjoin , this is i of the yummiest H2O ice cream cakes I've had! I honey the combination of H2O ice cream , berries , pistachios too meringue.

So here's to you lot CMC!

On about other complaint , distressing for sucking at answering your sweetness sweet comments too e-mails. You should know that they brand me thence happy too that I endeavor to read them all.





Vanilla H2O ice cream cake alongside raspberries , pistachios , meringue drops too raspberry sauce

Raspberry sauce
150 g frozen berries
l ml (0.2 cups) sugar

Ice cream cake
1 1/2 litre practiced character vanilla H2O ice cream , softened
l g pistachio kernels , coarsely chopped
125 g raspberries
250 ml / 1 loving cup meringue drops

For decoration:
Extra raspberries
Extra meringue drops
Chopped pistachios


 

Raspberry sauce
Let berries too carbohydrate come upward to a boil inwards a sauce pan. Mash berries carefully alongside a fork too allow simmer for a couplet of minutes , too thence allow cool for a while. Press mixture through a sieve. Store inwards fridge.

Ice cream cake
Line a 1 1/2 liter capacity bowl alongside plastic twine (let the plastic twine hang over the edge).
Put the softened H2O ice cream inwards a larger bowl too plication downwards pistachios , raspberries too 1 dl (0.4 cup) of the meringue drops. Pour mixture into prepared bowl too spread out remaining meringue drops on summit of H2O ice cream to do a meringue layer. Put bowl inwards the freezer ,  roofing the summit alongside the overhang of plastic wrap. Freeze for vi hours or overnight.
Put a plate inwards the freezer to chill. Turn out the cake on summit of it , removing the plastic wrap. Put dorsum inwards the freezer until theatre , close 20 minutes. Decorate alongside raspberries , pistachios , meringue drops too raspberry sauce.