Baking disaster

I love baking (not so much the clearing up...) but haven't been able to do much lately. One Friday I decided to make Jemima some cone cupcakes before she got home from nursery and we could do the icing together before Daddy got home from work.  That was the plan...

I had made these a few weeks before when Candy, Mark and the kids were over but this time I was lazy and just thought I would try and do them without supporting them in the oven with foil around the base of each of them (a lot of faff!!).  MASSIVE MISTAKE!!

 The cake batter went all over the oven and has stuck on like superglue!! I didnt like good cake to go to waste so decided to try and see if it was any good for cake pops... I trashed the cones taking out all the cake, mixed it up with icing, rolled them into balls and left them to set in the fridge.

I still haven't perfected the melting of candy melts to go over the top (I can't get it to be fluid enough) but no-one has complained as yet... Finish product were LOVED by Gary and Jemima!!

Jemima keeps asking for them, I would make them more often if they weren't so much hard work!  Special occasions or disaster avoidance only!!

Decorating

We are finally getting round to personalising the downstairs after the extension was finished and decorating all done. We had talked about this as an idea for the wall but only after I saw it in a mag on how to do it did we actually go ahead.

It started with lots of different photo frames which I cut the shape out of brown paper and printed labels with pictures of the frames themselves. These it stuck onto the wall with tape to try and work out what was going where...





Then Gary spent a weekend preparing the frames to go on the wall (most of them didn't have hooks only stands!!!) and finally putting them all up :-)
This is work in progress...


And finally the end result...




It is difficult to see from a photo but it looks really good in real life :-)
My next job is to find the photos to go in them, that is going to be a tough one as we have so many lovely ones...


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Mimas FunPod

We have been meaning to get this for Jemima for a while now and wish we had got it sooner... It is called a FunPod and basically it is a box she stands in which lifts her up to worktop height where she can see what is going on. Just recently she has been getting very whiney when I am trying to get dinner ready and end up trying to do everything one handed with her on my hip for sanity sake!!!
Today she helped Me make pancakes for lunch & Gary prepare dinner by peeling the garlic and grating the cheese with him. She was very pleased with herself 😃













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Blogging

Well here goes I am going to give this blogging thing a go again, hopefully for longer than last time!!!




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