The Ultimate Incentive part 10. The only thing holding you back is you.

archersluck

Yay, go Gracie There'll be no stopping her now.

Have a lovely holiday Birdie

clearmydebts

Whoop whoop! Go Gracie!!! I am also having a proud mother moment as I think Evie has cracked toilet training just sneaking in before her 2nd birthday!!! We just need to work on the poos a little bit and no more daytime nappies for me!!!

Enjoy your holidays Birdie. Hope your friends behave!

I am looking for advice. I want to make this cake for Evie's birthday but I want to make a carrot cake underneath, as chocolate cake never gets eaten. Would this work? Does anyone have a good recipe, or if not for a chocolate one? Can I make it the day before?





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Dinah93

Well done Evie

There's no reason why it wouldn't be possible to do a carrot cake as obviously you don't cook the kitkat onto the cake until it's cool, but I just would have thought it would be a bit of an unusual taste carrot cake with so much chocolate. There's no reason not to make any kind of cake the day before, just ideally put it in a tin or something to keep it moist.

Tete_en_l'Air

The Be-Ro carrot cake recipe is the best I've tried - not sure if you have it or if it's available online... Xx

clearmydebts

Dinah93 wrote: »

Well done Evie

There's no reason why it wouldn't be possible to do a carrot cake as obviously you don't cook the kitkat onto the cake until it's cool, but I just would have thought it would be a bit of an unusual taste carrot cake with so much chocolate. There's no reason not to make any kind of cake the day before, just ideally put it in a tin or something to keep it moist.

That's what I thought! Would it be weird with all the chocolate? Any other suggestions rather than chocolate cake?

Evie just went over to the potty and did a poo on it, so she is trained. Am thrilled!!!

clearmydebts

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

The Be-Ro carrot cake recipe is the best I've tried - not sure if you have it or if it's available online... Xx

Thanks Tete! Is it this one:

http://www.be-ro.co.uk/recipe/showrec106.html

Dinah93

Wahey Evie!

How about a plain sponge cake? Or if you like it a bit fruity do a vanilla sponge with some raspberries baked in it?

wendz86

Yay go Grace! What a clever girl.

Clever Evie too! I am jealous. Not having much luck with Poppy, she was using potty a while back but now does not like it at all and try all methods of persuasion and she is not interested.

Tete_en_l'Air

It looks like that one CMD - obvs you don't have to do it as a traybake. I thought the carrot and choc might be a bit odd but had assumed you would just deconstruct the cake to eat it?! Maybe you could just do an orange sponge as choc and orange go? Hope to see a pic whatever you decide!!

Wendz - that happened to a friend of a friend - little girl was potty trained and then completely regressed for some reason. Nightmare!!

clearmydebts

What about something like this:

http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/mary-berrys-very-best-chocolate-and-orange-cake

Does this sound okay?

Was Poppy fully trained Wendz? Max was trained at 2.5 years but he was way more stubborn/anxious about the whole thing so that's why I decided to get in there early with Evie. Am keeping my fingers crossed that she keeps it up. Max went straight to the toilet (with a seat). He was terrified of the potty.