Cake - A Honey Yoghurt Baklava Cake

Chef of the Day or as the kids like to call it COD is our final project at school. We have to make 6 items and present them to our 3 chefs who then judge each item as well as our table set up. The items we have to make are:

A tart

A cake

A bread

A breakfast pastry

A chocolate

A plated dessert

Almond-raspberry cake

Howdy! I'm in that funny place I go to every summer, where the work-me, the food editor at All You, is knee-deep in Thanksgiving and Christmas, while the other me, the home-me, is busy scarfing up all the summer fruits I can get my grubby little paws on. Work = turkey, sweet potato casserole, stuffing, gingerbread; while home = rhubarb, melons, and berries, berries, berries. I love it, though I never do quite get used to it!

So... Sunday night we had a lovely early dinner with the mush's friend Jude (and his parents, of course). This is the sweetest, cuddliest, pudgy-cheekiest, bluest-eyed little fella you ever saw. I love this kid! He's such a jolly little boy, so happy, smiley and full of enthusiasm. No wonder he and the mush are good friends. Here they are, two peas in a pod:

Please!

Anyway, we love his parents, Bliss and Patrick, too. They very kindly invited us to dinner, and so we showed up with the mush and this almond-raspberry cake, which is from my cookbook, You Made That Dessert? I also brought over a work-in-progress recipe from a new book project I'm working on... more on that at a later date. Stay tuned.