Mums Birthday

I did some forward planning in preparation for mums birthday this year as I had a bit of time off work and so could shop around a bit. Mum had a great night out in 'ReHab' - a swanky Italian that Emily used to work at in Colliers wood. Mum and dad went all out on a pizza and myself and Adrian discovered the wonder that is Calzone... wow - that was a parma ham explosion!! The food was awesome and Emily made a great banoffee pie back at hers, complete with candels so we got to sing happy birthday to mum and they exchanged some gifts (some Molton Brown hand cream - smelt amazing so i may be borrowing some of that!!?!?).
My shopping in advance paid off as I managed to get a really cool hairdryer that mum was after but am still awaiting the CD I ordered for her which is a bit of a bummer. She got loads of cool goodies and spent the afternoon lunching with friends and doing a little shopping - well deserved I say. I spent the day in the kitchen creating an 'alternative' to the standard birthday cake in the form of a giant chocolate chip cookie - recipe courtesy of Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall. I iced it with butter cream and wrote on it with icing. It looked awesome but tasted the sweetest I've ever tasted ever.... and gave me that sickly headache you get when theres a proper sugar rush!! ewww.. perhaps I went overboard on the choc chips afterall. But the cherry cookies were a success I'm pleased to report and people are asking for a bigger christmas delivery... I think my week of baking has finally drawn to a close... the plain flour ran out basically and I'm too broke to buy more ingrediants to the world of cookie lovers will just have to wait until next year...