I’m currently on maternity leave but my boss was leaving so I thought I’d make the effort to go in to work (though I actually live on the same road as the charity I work for…so not exactly much effort!) and any excuse to make some cakes and I’m happy! So I enlisted the help of my 3yr old daughter and we set about making a couple of dozen cupcakes. My daughter loves baking and she’s actually very useful too, she pretty much knows all the ingredients we use, so if I ask her to get the baking powder or vanilla extract out of the cupboard for example she will very happily oblige and get it right.
We opted for coffee cupcakes topped with a mocha buttercream and vanilla cupcakes with an almond buttercream. I tried a new recipe for the coffee cupcakes from the primrose bakery book and was very pleased with results even though we changed it a bit according to the ingredients we had available to us.
Anyway, they were chuffed at work and even though the prospect of having to face the end of my maternity leave suddenly seemed very real, it was nice to see everyone......plus I was very happy for the excuse to buy some larger cupcake boxes!! haha
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