They had a cake sale today, where they all had to make a cake - all on their
own - and bring it in today to sell. Some brought in shop-bought packets of
cakes!! But anyhow. Benjamin's was pretty darned good! He made a giant
cookie-cake (2 giant cookies, using Daniel's currently unused Christmas present
of a pair of giant cookie moulds!) sandwiched together with buttercream and
canned cupcake icing.
I helped a bit with the mixing cos it was meant to use a food processor and
we don't have one.
I discovered he can't separate eggs! I had to do some serious rescuing at
that stage.
Again with the mixing, I did the 'mix together to bind to a dough' bit, cos
we still didn't have a food processor.
And I helped with mixing the buttercream cos otherwise it would have taken
forever and it was bedtime.
Which sounds a lot, but it really isn't. He found the recipe, did all of the
measuring himself. Did most of the mixing himself. Nearly did the eggs,
with a bit of a mess. Crushed the smarties and followed my slightly random
'throw in a handful of oats' instruction. Packed the moulds and heated the
oven and put them in the oven (then shouted at me for not letting him take
them back out of the oven!). Kind of spread the buttercream, and squirted
all of the chocolate cupcake stuff on himself. Well, on the cake, not on
himself. You know what I mean. And he removed one of them (after I showed
him how with the first) from the mould all by himself.
Not only did it look bloody good, one of the mums came over and asked (me,
not him, unfortunately) for the recipe of the yummy cookie!