I went out this morning for an hour to catch up with my lovely friends for a walk and a coffee and a much needed therapy session and when I came back my 8 year old had made a cake. He of the “find any excuse to make a cake” fame…”Mother’s Day Cake”, “Coming Back Home From School Cake”, “I Haven’t Got Any Homework Cake” – this one, I think was the “We’ve Got Friends Coming To Stay Who I Haven’t Seen Since I Was Two Cake”.
He’d printed off a recipe he’d found on the internet:-
Ingredients
For the sponge
3 eggs
Self Raising flour
Margarine
Caster Sugar
1 tsp Baking powder
For the buttercream
75g Butter
icing sugar
Method
Weigh the eggs in their shell and make a note of their weight
Weigh out the same weight in sugar, flour and margarine
Beat the margarine and sugar in a large mixing bowl until the consistency is creamy
Break the eggs into the mixture and add the flour and baking powder.
Mix ingredients together.
Divide the mixture evenly between two greased 18cm cake tins and place in a 180C oven for 25 to 30 minutes.
Remove a place on a cooling rack.
Make the buttercream by beating together the butter and icing sugar.
Here is what my kitchen looked like on my return:-
Here is the finished product:-
I asked my teenage son if he had helped him. He was supposed to be looking after him whilst I was out. “What cake?” he said, “I’ve been revising”.
It even tasted delicious:-
Claire
May 25, 2009That’s pretty impressive! and the kitchen doesn’t look too bad either. Your 8yr old is so cute sometimes, can I borrow him? 🙂
Wife in Hong Kong
May 25, 2009Ooh, yes please, I’ll have a slice of that! Or a share of your cake-baking son.
Dumdad
May 25, 2009Wow, that’s pretty damn good.
And was it tasty?
MBNAD woman
May 25, 2009Can I come to tea please? That looks fab. I’ve tried licking the screen but it’s just not the same 😉
Laura - Are We Nearly There Yet Mummy?
May 25, 2009That looks great.
I wouldn’t let English Mum see it though … she might think she has competition!
Working mum
May 25, 2009I could forgive him the mess for that cake!
Janelle
May 26, 2009bloody hell! that is an AMAZING CAKE…all totally worth the mess i’d say…XXX j
family affairs
May 26, 2009It’s pretty impressive isn’t it and yes DD it really did taste good too!
I know English Mum has some serious competition! Lx
fluoxetine
May 26, 2009Okay, that’s very impressive. There aren’t a lot of people that age that can pull this off and make the finished product look that good.
DulwichDivorcee
May 26, 2009Oooh, that cake looks utterly fab. Could you please send me a slice? Also, I’ve sent you an urgent email about Disney photos! x
Exmoorjane
May 29, 2009Darn it, that’s good. WIsh mine looked like that (can copy the kitchen mess but not the cake).