My chess sets: cakes

This is an occasional series of postings inspired by a brief discussion on the flight home from Turkey this summer. The flight attendant saw I was reading a chess book (quelle surprise) and, just making polite small talk, said she also liked playing chess, saying that depending on whether other crew members played, she would play on stopovers. Later in the flight she asked me if I had a chess set at home…and that set me thinking. How many chess sets do I have? And since then number is, well, shall we say, quite high, I thought I would blog about them especially those which ‘mean something to me’.

I retired from Deloitte in December 2014, and one of my colleagues, Fallon, baked this lovely set for me (even the filling was two coloured:

how long must it have taken her to make it) and the buns below.

Then, on my last day at Deloitte (which also happened to be Christmas jumper day) the firm had had a caterer make this enormous cake.

All the cakes were delicious; it was a close fought final, but Fallon’s won the bake off.

Rating:

10/10: I shall always treasure having had these cakes made for me.