I'm hosting book club tonight so yesterday I baked a chocolate cake with a chocolate fudge icing.
All was well until I was clearing up and licked the spatula I'd been stirring the icing with. It tasted decidedly peculiar. Another tentative lick revealed a definite curry flavour.
DH had cooked us all a curry (a very nice korma, incidentally) earlier that evening. He'd used the same spatula and although he'd washed it up and put it back in the drawer, it still had kept some of its curry aroma.
I tentatively picked at a bit of the icing that had fallen off the side of the cake and was relieved it tasted fine. Then I tried another bit but definitely got a bit of a korma sensation.
So what do I do now? I haven't got time to buy more ingredients and bake another one. DH reckons they won't notice so long as I make sure they all have some barbecue flavour crisps (and several glasses of wine) beforehand. Should I confess, bin it, or hope they just don't notice (or are too polite to say something?)