My two little girls are my craftyguidelets. The eldest is 5, and although she’s definitely daddy’s girl, her ambition when she’s a grown up is to be a mummy. I’m not sure which part of my job she likes, but I must be doing something right! The youngest is almost 3 and a mummy’s girl. She can sing a great ‘craftyguider dot com’ jingle.
One of my aims for this year is to bake regularly with the craftyguidelets. They love baking but I have to make sure they don’t bake together as they are so competitive. There’s only so much mixing a cake can take, and the step ladder really only takes one girl at a time.
They both joined forces with daddy to make my birthday cake, and this weekend we did more baking.
The 2 year old and I made gluten free toffee chocolate fudge brownie muffins (daddy is gluten intolerant) from Phil Vickery’s fabulous Seriously Good! Gluten Free Baking
They taste great whether you eat gluten or not.
The 5 year old chose a gluten free light sponge from the book. I think she was swayed by the icing on the top. This didn’t go as well as the muffins. I think I need to experiment more with oven temperatures and timings, but we ended up with a nice cake.
The icing is actually pink, but it’s a bad photo.
She’s part of the fifth or sixth generation of bakers in our family. My dad is a master baker and confectioner so it’s in her genes!
Ahh that icing picture is soooo lovely! 🙂