Normally I'd be rushing around on a Saturday trying to catch up on all the things I didn't get done (or ignored) during the week. Not that I would have been doing much this Saturday because I'm in London, so I would have had a day of from domestic stuff anyway. But today was a bit of a day off for everybody.
So we made cakes...
Jamie Oliver would be proud. We made our own creation without a recipe! I wasn't in charge. No. Today I had to take instruction from my eight year old niece. I also had to listen to the music on her iPod while we sieved and mixed and creamed and levelled. There is only so much Katy Perry 'music' one can listen to. It was nice to hear singing along. She did allow me to choose a track. It was quite a challenge to try to guess what music an eight year old would have on her iPod. Bingo, I got it right and chose Olly Murs. That led to a rather well informed (on her side) and a clueless (on my side) discussion about the X Factor... Jeez... I never knew baking was such hard work!
She did redeem herself by playing and singing along to Dancing Queen by ABBA. So all hope for music in the next generation of Brennan's is not entirely lost!
Apparently the afternoons baking has earned me the 'Aunt of the day' award. Although I did feel, having had to listen to several tracks by the lovely Ms Perry, one particular one over and over, that should have been upgraded to 'Aunt of the Year'!!!
Here's what we created. Snow cakes!! They probably won't last as long as the snow...
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