"Interested in going to a cake tasting?" My girlfriend asked.
She must have known even without asking that I would be all for it! The fact that the funds were to go to two special charities was an added incentive.
So we drove up further into the lovely Dandenong Ranges hills (lovely one day and perfect the next! whatever the season) to a small hamlet called Kallista (the meaning of which is "most beautiful"). The small mechanics hall had a large sign outside "The Cake Committee". On entering we were greeted by lots of happy faces, a number of tables with pretty vases of spring flowers (camellias, daffodils and daphne) and ladies in the kitchen already to serve cups of tea and coffee - all in readiness for guests to sit and taste some of the lovely delights and enjoy a cuppa.
Interspersed along the major front trestle table were and interspersed with lots (and I mean lots) of the most delicious, cholesterol laden, cakes. Chocolate, lemon, tirimasu, banana, Black Forest, lemon curd, lemon meringue, strawberry roulade, and tiny bite sized strawberry meringue/macaroons. Ladies wielding sharp knives quickly set about cutting slices and guests very quickly took advantage of some of their favourites.
As my girl-friend said, "what a very sensible way to spend a Sunday afternoon!" I couldn't agree more.
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