Anyone who has taken a look at the Let Them Eat CAKE! LC recently, will know that it will take more than a miracle for me to redeem my lack of participation in the monthly challenges, by taking part in this month's.

But still, I am up for the challenge...

An interim entry to show that I am trying. But I need to try harder. More importantly I need to take note of the challenge requirements properly. I read the requirements at the beginning of the month, and somehow by this time after too much "Christmas cheer" over the month my mind has created it's own set of criteria. And so, please do not take these as my entries, unless I fail to post some better more accurate ones.

I have created a Christmas themed cache, not filled with a lot of Christmas spirit. I can do better. It is Almost just a name CC4Z4T.

And then for some reason, I made a meal for my better half this evening. I called it a Kristmas Korma. Based on the chicken korma recipe I use when I have to do this, with a few changes. I diced turkey (the UK poultry of choice for Christmas), in place of chicken, added a few different spices more usually found in mulled wine, and made a few little Christmas trees and holly out of cucumber, with pomegranate seeds as berries. All very good you may say, especially for me as a mostly non-chef husband, but forgot all about the TC logo 

My better half liked it. Chicken tastes better though she says.

Even though this challenge was for cachers like myself to redeem ourselves, I still have some redeeming to do. Let's see if I can come up with something over the next week *fingers crossed*

*opens up another bottle of "Christmas cheer"*

Had a bout of insomnia this past night, so a good time to either go out and find a cache or too, or try and make something to cancel out my mistake on the food part above. As the winds were high with driving rain, I decided to "cook".

As not prepared, had to use what I could find in the cupboard. I made a heart shaped chocolate brownie with a few white chocolate chips in it, coated it in vanilla icing, and wrote a message to my wife on it with the remnants of coloured icing that I had left over from my GPSr cake for "Let The Eat CAKE!".

I thought it tasted ok, but it was not for me to critic was it? My artistic talents were poor again. My daughter said, pointing at the red TC symbol I tried to draw, "What's that? Is it that thing on your arm?" Ok, at least it must be semi-recognisable. She said it tasted ok.

My wife said nothing more than "Ice cream goes with brownies, not frosting." I still don't know if she liked it or not, but there is a chunk of it gone now 

Managed to create a Christmas themed cache early in the month Ho Ho PO! - CC1O89 but didn't find the opportunity to do the extra this month.  Cooking is not my forte but next time the kids bake cakes I'll try and stir the bowl!

Thanks to WindPumpBoy for the challenges this year - they've been great fun.  Hope you and Mrs WPB have a fantastic New Year.

Just when I thought my chance for the extra was over, No 1 son decided he wanted to make a big chocolate cookie cake for New Years Eve! Never one to turn down a cookie, I asked if I could decorate it.  A stencil, a sieve and some icing sugar later and voila - a Terracookie!

As he'd done the cooking I had to try and and I must say it was very good, especially with some vanilla ice cream. Living the dream eh!