Check me out – mother of the year alert. I have baked muffins with my boys this afternoon.
Here’s the kit before I started:
And here’s the final result – yes, they are star shaped pineapple, raisin, carrot and chocolate chip muffins 🙂
[ahem.bum.etc. can’t get the image to load. will come back to this….]
But here’s what baking muffins actually means – going to John Lewis, purchasing silicone cake cakes in the shape of a star and some brightly coloured circle silicone cases. Doing all the prep for the baking muffins project myself. Weighing it all out myself. Putting it all together and then spooning it out under instruction from E and W. Then they contribute on a practical level – they put a chocolate chip on the top of each muffin. I then clean it all up whilst they go and play. And to add final insult to injury, W refuses to try one and E has one bite, rejects it and says “but I did have a go mummy and like you say, it’s good to try things, isn’t it?”
I figured that this would be a good thing to share on my blog, because I’m sure that there’s plenty of other mums out there who start with good intentions of doing lovely projects with their children that then turn into something that’s not quite the picturesque thing you’d thought of…
It’s not just me this happens to, is it?
PS. If you like baking and making, have a look at this recipe for goats cheese tart – you’ll be drooling over it…
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