A friend of mine has been involved with the production of a book of family-friendly baking recipes (with Flossie Crums) on behalf of the Royal British Legion. It’s a pocket sized book of recipes for children to cook to commemorate Remembrance Day. All profits from the sale of the book are being donated to the Royal British Legion to help all those people who have served and continue to serve this country.

My son immediately got to work. Got me to drive to the specialist cake shop for icing. Got me to pay for it all. Got me to find all the equipment and buy all the other ingredients. Got me to relinquish my kitchen to a creative artist who has no idea about a system or control of mess. Got me to help with the tidying up.

But apart from the above, I take no responsibility for the fabulous outcome. He measured, whisked, poured, timed, rolled, cut out shapes, iced and shaped.

Impressive stuff from an 11 year old and dare I say it – his cake looks better than the one in the picture and what’s more it tasted delicious.

Go on – buy the book – give it to a child and get them to bake a cake for someone who remembers…..it’s only £2.50.

“And they called it Poppy Love” (sorry):-

 

Here’s the one in the book alongside:-

Here is the book – you can order it on poppyshop.org.uk and flossiecrums.com

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  • Jo
    September 30, 2011

    Junior Master Chef here you come! That is so impressive …assume you want the other cake for your birthday then?! xx

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    • Family Affairs
      September 30, 2011

      Yes, wasn’t I good not to mention my birthday in the post/?? It took ALL my willpower xx

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  • Flossie Crums
    September 30, 2011

    Thank you thank you for making my cake! I think your version DOES indeed look better than the original! What I need to know more importantly is – did it taste as wonderful as it looks?! For all you keen bakers out there who need edible pay dough and fairy sparkly edible glitter, but don’t live next to a specialist cake shop, please remember you can get everything you need in my very own shop! http://www.flossiecrums.com/flossie-crums-blog/shop/category/the-royal-british-legion/
    Happy baking xxx Flossie Crums

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    • Family Affairs
      September 30, 2011

      Yes, it really did taste delicious – thanks for the recipe and I hope your book really does well Lx

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  • Shiny
    September 30, 2011

    You get five stars for being a mummy that has brought such a talented cake-maker into the world! There can never be enough cake, especially not green and red cake with poppies on top… Is it chocolate inside? Yummy x

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    • Family Affairs
      September 30, 2011

      Yes, deliciious! Lx

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