Herman the friendship cake - can I miss out a day?

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Someone gave me a bowl of slop which they promise will turn out to be a fabulous apple cake. It's a 10-day process, but I will be away on day 10 and wondered if I could tweak it and cook it a day early. Today is day 8, so could I add day 9's ingredients tonight and cook it tomorrow?
Thanks if you have made it this far!

We have had Herman a couple of times. Missing a day never seems to have been a problem, and he tastes really nice.

Brilliant, thank you! I seem to remember my mother making something similar in the 70s, so am quite looking forward to seeing how it turns out. And then taking mum a slice on Monday

as long as he's still alive I'm sure he won't mind missing a day ;-)

no, I kept stirring, adding etc on the wrong days (just being inept, not particularly busy ) but Hermann was fine, as were all his children .

Personally, I thought the "cake" was more puddingy and we preferred it served warm with custard/ice cream.

Herman's yummy. Especially when you add candied peel

He is quite puddingy, especially if you add extra fruits.

You have taken me back to my childhood
We had a similar thing I had forgotten all about
Thanks for the memory

I had one of these recently not realising it was a "chain cake".
I'm sure doing it a day early won't make that much of a difference. Makes very nice apple cake and bread. Didn't have the opportunity to give it to friends on day 10 so used th rest to make bread/ dumplings later.

freezes very well too and definitely yummy with custard!

Well, he worked out just fine and we seem to have polished off 3/4 already. Thanks for the advice!