It's my Day 25 in the Third Season of the Food Diary Game. It's Thursday, and I made a cake I had not done in a while.

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Today's one of my best friend's birthday. She's a dearest friend and also a colleague. She's been away for a while studying and working, and a couple of days ago, she asked me to make a fruit and cream cake for her family so they'd sing Happy Birthday to her.

I used to make cakes like this one (fruits and cream) when our closest friends had their birthdays. She wanted her family to taste it and she would know exactly what it tasted like. It'd be close to being together.

Cost of the ingredients: 15$ or 2.2 SBDs approx.

The cake measured 30 cm wide and 12 cm high. It weighed 3.2 kg (sponge cake, 900 gr + cream, 900 gr + fruit, 900 gr + liquids).

I wanted to help her have a bit of happiness on her birthday, so I woke up early, grabbed my cup of coffee and got to work on my friend's B-Day Cake.

First if all, I prepared the fruit because I had to cook the pealed and chopped apples and pears and then wait until they were cold.

I used two pears and two apples, 2 cups of water, 1 cup of sugar, the juice of a lemon, and a pinch of salt.

They cooked for 30 minutes. I let them cool down and then took them to the freezer.

In the meantime, I made a sponge cake.

I used 3 cups of flour 1 tablespoon baking soda, 1 tablespoon of ground cinnamon, 3 cups of granulated sugar, 6 eggs, and a pinch of salt.

I cut the cake lengthwise, and soaked one layer in evaporated milk, and the other one in the syrup where I had boiled the fruit. I also used the syrup from the canned pineapple slices.

The fruit was just part of the filling and the cover. The key part was the cream; it'd help the fruit and the cake be happy together. I made a Bavarian cream: 60% Chantilly, 40% pastry cream.

For the filling, I used the apples and pears I cooked myself. The strawberry and kiwi were fresh and raw.
I decorated with canned pineapple slices, too.

While I let the cake get cold enough as to be taken to my friend's parents' house, I baked chicken and potatoes for lunch.

I boiled some rice to go with the chicken.

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Then we ate a piece of chocolate candy my comadrita had brought.

For dinner, we had toasts, cheese and potatoes.

I used enough potato for the baked chicken, so we could use it in our dinner, too.

We also finished the fruit left from the birthday cake. Delicious!

And these were the highlights of my food-day. Still keeping to my medical treatment. As always, I hope you're all healthy and at peace. See you on my next entry--mine and yours--. :)