Gloverly Cupcakes

Why did the penguin cover his eyes?

Because Father Christmas was about to bowl a Christmas pudding at him!

This year Tom was working on Christmas Day. He’s been pretty lucky – it’s the first year he’s had to work since he qualified as a doctor and a couple of years ago he even made it back from Afghanistan for Christmas. Since Tom was working, I decided not to take much holiday so that I can save it up for when Tom is off. However, this meant that I had hardly any time to do any Christmas baking.

I made this cake in the evening on Christmas Eve for Tom to take to work on Christmas Day. However, I also had a massive list of other things to do (including baking Christmas presents!) so I ran out of time and didn’t finish decorating it. On Christmas morning, after taking Tom to work I drove to my uncle’s house. I then spent the morning decorating the cake. I timed it perfectly – I stuck the last piece on just as my auntie and grandparents arrived.

So instead of being a Christmas cake, it turned into a Boxing Day cake. Tom took it in on Boxing Day morning and text me a couple of hours later to say that everybody thought it was too cute to eat so they refused to cut it up! In the end he just cut it in half… apparently the first penguin to get gobbled was the one with his eyes covered since he couldn’t see anything so it was ok to eat him!