Grace's double rum and raisin cakes

 At the third meeting of our Hot, Sweet and Yummy baking group, the theme was 'indulgence' and we also had a new member! Grace is a good friend and we were delighted when she agreed to come along. Grace's roots are in the Caribbean and we were all quite excited about the possibility of something tropical and exotic and weren't disappointed. Grace had been soaking raisins in something alcoholic for months for no other reason that its a good thing to do and you never know when you're going to need some boozy raisins. It was lucky that we invited her when we did as I'm sure the potency of booze soaked fruit quadruples with every passing week and therefore some of our members may have been driving home slightly tipsy!

I love Grace's sense of humour and was delighted to see she hadn't lost it whilst creating something for Hot, Sweet and Yummy. She had cunningly disguised her lethal raisins as Tom and Jerry cakes - genius! So beneath the innocent looking face of Jerry mouse and the sweetie pink icing lay those devilish raisins literally bursting with rum. We demolished one each no problem and all agreed that although they were definitely potent, the rum wasn't overpowering. It seems rum was the order of the evening after Jane's rum and chocolate cake. Maybe we should have a boozy themed meeting sometime soon! Anyway, we all throughly enjoyed Grace's double rum and raisin cakes and look forward to the next meeting as Grace has volunteered to cook up something savoury for us. Yummy. Grace, welcome to the group and well done on baking something completely sweet and yummy but please send us your recipe soon so everyone can enjoy some double rum and raisin cakes.
Love Hot, Sweet and Yummy x