October 3, 2011 by Lauren
Deep in rural Derbyshire the Real Cupcake Company came up with the fantastic idea of dairy free gourmet cupcake kits made with natural ingredients, real fruit and absolutely no artificial colourings or flavourings.
The quick and easy kits come with everything you need for perfect home baked cupcakes so when we were asked if we would like to review them I jumped at the chance. Anyone that knows me is will tell you that if there is an easy way out in the kitchen, I will take it – hence marrying a Chef!
When the box arrived I was very curious, I was half expecting a packet mix to be staring back at me with “just add water” decorating it’s packaging. Instead I was faced with a bag of cake mix, a bag of icing, two large piping bags, two piping nozzles, cupcake cases and decorations. A beautiful leaflet caught my eye that had lots of pictures of scrummy cupcakes on and turned out to be the instructions with the words just add two eggs!
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September 7, 2011 by Lauren
Spud loves cooking and baking so we were delighted to be asked to review two products from Renshaw’s new home baking junior range.
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June 23, 2011 by Lauren
I’ve never done baking with Spud before. You will have gathered from a previous entry that I don’t bake very often ever. Now that Spike has started napping in his cot I have been trying to engage Spud in quiet activities for 45 minutes or so in the morning so that he doesn’t disturb his brother who is always afraid that he’s missing something.
Today much to the Hubby’s surprise (more comments of “what’s gotten into you?!) I decided to let Spud help me bake. I am a total control freak and perfectionist so letting a 2 year old loose on MY cakes was a daunting prospect. Luckily he did really well – he’s my budding chef.
You’ll have to excuse the decor, the industry that Hubby works in has suffered a lot of cuts recently and they can’t won’t update our drab 1970′s kitchens!
He soon got bored so I let him help to unload the dishwasher.
At last they were ready!
By this time Spike was awake so we went to go and do some colouring whilst the cakes cooled. I left him to two minutes and came back to this:
At least he found something to occupy himself! The cakes were now cool enough to decorate and Spud informed me that he would quite like them to be “mishy mowse cecks,” Who am I to argue?!
So there you go, the woman that doesn’t bake, did it again!
And now for the seal of approval:
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June 15, 2011 by Lauren
Well the house is still sparkly and the washing basket is empty. For once it’s not just piled up in the garage in front of the washing machine, it’s actually all washed, folded and put away in everyone’s cupboards! If the hubby wasn’t suspicious enough from my sudden clean and tidy bug tonight I stunned him even more. After the boys have gone to bed I’m usually gagging to put my feet up and just slob out either on my pc or staring mindlessly at some rubbish soap opera. Tonight I said I was going to the shop and left pretty sharpish. The hubby assumed I had gone to buy some chocolate for my night in front of the tv.
About ten minutes after I got in the hubby came running into the kitchen to find out what the weird whirring noise was. There I was stood adding ingredients to the mixer whilst he stood there with his jaw on the floor. He gave me a very worried look and said “Are you ill?!” I should be offended but anybody that knows me, knows that I am far from the perfect housewife! I lack confidence when cooking so don’t often do it, I married a Chef but rather than learn from him I just let him cook for me! Even when I called my mum, whilst the cakes were cooking, I got a similar reaction. Ever the pessimist though she did ask me how long I thought I’d be able to keep it up for!
So here are my creations, from the woman who can’t bake
p.s I will update tomorrow with the results on whether I have just poisoned my family!
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