I’d promised to make a chocolate pomegranate torte for Daniel for New Year’s Day but with the dishwasher down I didn’t want to make such a large mess in the kitchen. After a long wait the dishwasher is finally back in action and it’s easy to clean up piles of dishes so the cake is at last done. I even set aside a little baggie of frozen cranberries in case he’d like this for his birthday in June, when it’s hard to find them.