While A was at preschool this morning I wanted to do something special with E. He plays so well by himself when A isn’t there, probably because he doesn’t get everything that he picks up instantly taken off him; he appreciates the time he is alone so much that I don’t like to disturb (and when I do I am normally told to go away anyway). So I just get on with chores and other things, but today I felt like I was really neglecting him so I decided that I had to find something for us to do. I realised that, by some small miracle, we had all the ingredients in to make some fairy cakes, and when I asked him if he was interested he jumped at the chance! He was also so excited to get to wear A’s baking outfit (her pink hat and pinny):
We just made standard fairy cakes as follows:
- We started by weighing out the ingredients (110g self-raising flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 110g sugar, 110g soft butter, 2 eggs, and a few drops of vanilla essence).
- Then we sieved the flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl.
- Once sieved, we added all of the other ingredients and beat the resulting mixture until it was light and fluffy.
- Finally, we spooned the mixture into bun cases and baked in the pre-heated oven for 20 minutes at 180°C.
The idea was then to decorate them using the contents of our cupboard, but in the end I decided that it would be more fun to decorate them as bears (seeing as we are spending this week thinking about bear stories). I then found out that it was also National Teddy Bear Day today so there was really no going back after that little piece of information!
We headed to the shop on the way to pick up A from preschool and picked up some chocolate (to melt and use in place of icing), chocolate sprinkles, chocolate drops and chocolate buttons. (We already had a bag of fudge pieces at home).
Once home I melted the chocolate, laid all of our ingredients out on the table, and we set to work. I suggested to A and E that they might like to make bears, but they were having none of it. Oh well, I made bears anyway! Not the most artistic things ever, but nevermind:
And they did make very very nice looking cakes so it didn’t really matter that they weren’t bears; they absolutely loved it.
This is probably the most successful baking activity we have ever done, with both of them completely engaged throughout, though admittedly, it was probably mildly helped by the accessibility of a huge pack of Cadbury’s Buttons for the duration of the activity, but still…
They were very yummy indeed!
Love it how they digressed from the artistic bear spec!! Looks likes so much fun. I need to do this with Big Munch. Will try not to eat the Buttons along the way! #KCACOLS
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Aw! Brilliant! Looks like you had amazing fun. The cakes look fab…I wish I had all of that chocolate sitting around in my cupboards! It never ever happens! Thanks for linking with #KCACOLS
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Aww! What adorable little cakes!! Great post! #KCACOLS
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Thank you 🙂
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They look delicious! Now I want cakes! Thanks for sharing #KCACOLS
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Thank you! They were very yummy!
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I need cake now. Look at what you did!
Great post 🙂
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Sorry 🙂 thank you!
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Cake and chocolate buttons, heaven lol x
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They look awesome! I bet they were well eaten 😀 #KCACOLS
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They were! Very quickly too!
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Ah lovely, those cakes look fab! x #KCACOLS
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Thank you 🙂
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One of my fave activities with the toddler is cake baking! Your boy did a great job! And looked very fetching in the chef’s outfit #KCACOLS
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Thank you 🙂 I have struggled before with the two of them, but it was so much easier with just one. He loved getting the chance to do it all by himself and did it so well!
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Aww it looks like they had great fun with this! I am so excited to start baking and cooking with Taormina but am not sure when to give it a try. x #KCACOLS
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It was a good one! I was the same, I just gave it a go! I started really simple – chocolate cornflake cakes and things. Or just decorating biscuits or cakes. And then went on from there. When they were very small I would weigh the things out and crack the eggs and things and then we’d all mix it together and put it into the cases!
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Look at all that chocolate! They look delicious! Sounds like you all had a great time making these too. #KCACOLS
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