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My sister and I made Ví­narterta today. Yes, I know. It’s a little late. We should have done it a couple of weeks ago! Because the cake really is better if it ages for a month. But better late than never, yes?

We had hours of fun. Most of the time was spent laughing and playing Scrabble and Perquacky (yes, I’m afraid I lost again – read about last year’s baking day.) But we did get the cake done in spite of the fooling around. And we realized that we have been spending a day together doing Christmas baking each year for 17 years! Seventeen!

• Ví­narterta recipe

I’ve also been distracted from posting in here because I’m in the process of putting together my annual

Advent calendar.

I MUST be out of my mind!

• Ví­narterta recipe
• Christmases Past “Disaster Averted”
• other posts about ví­narterta:
  * Mmmm… ví­narterta (January 2007)
  * pre-pitted prunes, eh? (December 2007)
  * Yesterday was Cake Day (December 2009)
  * Have you made your Vinarterta yet? (December 2012)
  * This year, we are the Smugs! (Cake Day) (December 2016)
  * And we have cake! (November 2017)