I’m poorly, again. I know, shock, horror and more shock. I swear my immune system is on existent.
On Thursday night I had a bit of a tickely throat during Clubbercise class, and then yesterday morning I woke with a full on cold. This morning I had somewhat of a migraine to accompany it, and my eye lids were very swollen and tender.
Anyway, the afternoon as arrived and Troy has gone out to football. I feel slightly better in the sense that I can actually see now, so I’ve dragged my bum off the sofa and decided to do some baking with Thea. I know, what am I thinking, right?!
It actually wasn’t that bad. I had bought one of those pre-made packets. It was from B&M and cost 99p, so I wasn’t holding high hopes, but for a first attempt at baking, that didn’t really matter.
I took her little table into the kitchen and first we put the baking cases into the tray. She managed a couple of times, but also was trying to double them up.
Next I emptied the sachet into a bowl and just added a heaped teaspoon of butter and then an egg and 4tsp of water and we got mixing!
Obviously I had to mix it all together, but she enjoyed having a go at mixing herself. However, she did take the spoon out and try and waft it everywhere so I quickly removed it! (Only because it had raw egg on it). That was it as far as the cake went. They went into the oven. It said 12-15 minutes but as suspected I had to leave them in for 20.
So they looked a little better than I expected for a 99p packet. You’re not going to get the rise as you would with home baking as there isn’t enough mixture for a start, and once she gets used to baking a bit more, we’ll make some scratch.
While they were cooling I did quickly mix the icing myself as she was busy dancing to Tree Fu Tom.
I bought the cakes and mixture into the living room and with my help she had a go at decorating!
All in all baking with Thea was pretty fun. Can’t wait to do it again.
I hope Troy is looking forward to dinner tonight!
woo these look super!! You cant beat the little 99p baking boxes for something to do with the kids, can you!! Love the photos …. looks like she had a lot of fun! ps: I think I caught your cold through the cyber waves haha!! Get better soon xx
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They were great fun and really easy because you can hand mix. I can’t wait to make them from scratch and pipe the decorations on but she’s definitely not ready for that just yet lol. I must have done. I played netball in the rain today as well but luckily I don’t feel too bad at the minute. X
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Homemade Granola Bars
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