So this week was The Runner’s birthday, and of course I made a cake.  Now, one of The Runner’s favourite things to do is to come up with extremely random ideas for dinner, cakes, or basically anything else that he doesn’t have to cook himself- which is 99.9% of what we eat at home.  About 90% of the time I ignore these random suggestions and Frankenstein-esque ideas, however because it was his birthday, and because I have time on my hands, I decided I would lean in to this one.  

I will preface this by saying that I am a STRONG believer in cookbooks and cooking and baking according to the book.  Occasionally, I will embellish with a bit of extra cinnamon or vanilla or something else relatively minor but I am normally pretty faithful to the recipe in the book.  Why?  I know they’ll work.  I know they’ve been tested, and I’m normally 70% sure that they will be edible.  I mean there have been a couple of times I’ve been let down, but on the whole, if you follow the recipe, it turns out ok.  The problem with weird, wacky, and random ideas is:

1. They are not tried and tested.
2. They are not thought of by a cook or baker who knows what’s possible
3. Sometimes they’re not well thought through, even by the person who has conceived of the weird and wacky idea

But, I gave this one a go any way.  

It’s no secret that in our house, we LOVE tres leches cake. It was the cake I made before I had Thomas and I’ve made it quite a few times since. But The Runner asked for a twist.  He wanted a Chocolate Tres Leches Semifreddo Cake- or was it a Tres Leches Chocolate Semifreddo Cake.  Whatever it was, it was not something I had a cookbook for, and google didn’t have a recipe for it either.  (Un)luckily, there is AI.  I asked ChatGPT for help to create a recipe, and it gave an answer- as AI always does.  Was it a good answer?  Hmmmmmm.  Was it the right answer?  Not sure.  But I did make it.  And it wasn’t awful.  I mean, it wasn’t great but it wasn’t awful either.  It was just a bit odd- It’s something I might play around with again- maybe cutting up the cake and putting it in the semi-freddo– or maybe not.  Maybe there’s a reason why Tres Leches Semi Freddo isn’t a thing but Tres Leches Cake is.  Maybe the reason is that it’s not great….oh well.  HBD to The Runner.

Also this week, I baked cookies (of course).  These fantastic Peanut Butter Miso Cookies and these Double Chocolate cookies from Delicious Magazine. The Peanut Butter Miso are yum! Even Thomas keeps sneaking them when he doesn’t think I’m watching.