As promised, yesterday afternoon proved sticky and eventful.
We were running very late with our schedule thanks to Matilda taking nearly two hours to make mashed potato fingers a la Margeurite Patten in WWII. She was so late with lunch that Tallulah and I agreed that if we had hired her as a cook during the war we would have had to sack her before we starved to death. Rationing would have been the least of our issues. Still, I suppose it was edible and one has to smile, smile, smile and do ones bit for Queen and country.
We had only just finished scrubbing mashed potato off the furniture when granny hoved into view for our grand cake decorating event.
It was hideous. Oscar and Tallulah ate Barbie sprinkles by the desert spoon full and spent much of the afternoon licking lumps of icing and hiding under the table eating the fairy cakes they were supposed to be icing. I did get them to pose for you:
This was shortly before they ran around shrieking like hoodlums. Tallulah made me this:
Which I had to throw in the bin secretly when she ran off, mainly because I saw her giving it a crafty, once all over lick before she decided that it would be her gift to me. How special.
Tilly, as predicted, ended up covered in icing. Not only is there now navy blue grouting on my kitchen floor, but she also had green feet and legs from where she ‘accidentally’ tipped the piping back upside down:
We went from this:
to this:
via this:
Which took about two hours and involved showers for everyone and a steam cleaning of the entire kitchen.
Kirsty made it look a lot easier.
OMG what seriously gorgeous looking cupcakes!!! I am well impressed. YOUr kids did a sterling job!
I would NEVER have attempted that icing project when my daughter was younger! But I have to say that the finished product does look gorgeous, as Nicola said. Maybe they can be the professional cake icers and keep you in style some day? (of course, they’d have to pay someone to clean up for them, it looks like, and it won’t be you, will it!
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Is Tilly going to try making a cabbage pie next? May take a whole day to complete that one lol!
I expect Tallulah was just licking the fluff off your cake to save you doing it. Fie on you for thinking she had an ulterior motive and was rejecting it as substandard
. The purchase of a nasty plastic shower curtain to be used as a floor protector, should you ever consider letting your little angels in the kitchen again, might be a good move.
Well, I was rather impressed with the finished objects. As art rather than foodstuffs, but still!
What a lovely mummy you are.
Very impressive – both the icing skills and patience demonstrated.
Nicola
It is granny who is the genius, although mine, with the whale on top, made me feel quite proud for a moment, before I filled my sleeve with navy icing.
Pinklea
It will so be me. Maybe they’ll emigrate, and then they can send me boxes of their fare without me having to don my marigolds.
Sharon
that’s a really clever idea. I can so tell you used to be a childminder. Maybe I should just have the house laminated?
Justme
Please write in and tell my children that!
Homeofficemum
I left the room for large parts of it. Granny is the one with the patience as well…
wow! i’m seriously impressed… i do lovely cakes, but obviously have been missing out on the more artistic aspects of cake decorating. and now i’m starving.
bronxbee
The thing is, my kids love icing the cakes but don’t really like eating the icing. I still have some of the cakes because nobody actually wants to eat them. Typical!