Birthday Cake

jackomdj

It is my birthday tomorrow and my DD, age 8, is making me a cake. So far this has involved:

Me going to the shops to buy sugar and eggs as we were out.
Me getting the mixer, ingredients, scales etc out.
Me helping younger daughter read the recipe.
DD weighing the ingredients.
DD adding them to the mixer.
Me helping them both crack eggs into a cup.
Me fishing the egg shell from the cup!
DD's putting the mix into the tins.
Me scraping the mix from the sides of the tins.
DD's licking any leftover mix.
Me putting it in the cooker.
Me taking it out of the oven and testing its ready.
DD sticking the skewer in to test it.
Me washing all the dishes.

BUT I am so pleased she wanted to try. Still got the icing and decorating to go, but once the icing is made they can do that with their Dad (who is a brilliant cook but fails when it comes to making cakes!)

whitewing

I did loads of cooking as a child. It really helped with school maths too because you got a sense of the weight of things so if a chocolate bar weighed 5 kg in a maths paper, you quickly realised that you'd got the sum wrong.

Gigervamp

Aww, that's lovely. Happy Birthday for tomorrow.

Gigglepig

Next year why not leave daddy and DD in the kitchen with a recipe book, and enjoy a morning out in the sun...

jackomdj

Giggle pig you have not seen his previous cake attempts. I will happily let him stay on the main course.

Whitewing, I too loved baking as a child. I would often raid my Mums cupboards and try to follow a recipe before they got up. Unfortunately she was not much of a cook so I would often end up substituting things that I thought were similar ie using plain flour and granulated sugar!

The girls often help me, but I tried to step back and let them take the lead with the weighing out, mixing etc. it ended up very over mixed so did not rise too well, but it is what they made me, including the lilac butter icing topped with chocolate buttons and rather a lot of gold stars! If they had their way they would have used up every item in my decorating tin.

gingin_2

That made me smile :-)

My daughter is a year older and has just started following recipes on her own, I think last year we would have been at a similar stage as you. It's lovely, I can sit with my cup of tea at the table and she cooks away.

I admit to not having been as proactive with it with my son, he was happy to eat without the cooking part. He is 4 years older and in cookery at school it has shown, so as well as being fun, it is beneficial to them in the long run.

Spendless

.My birthday is today and my 10yo dd wanted to go on a spending spree with me, which seemed to consist of her wanting me to buy her more stuff than I bought myself. Enjoy your birthday and cake.:beer:

marleyboy

Just wait till you have to act Surprised at seeing the Cake Have a FANTASTIC Birthday OP.

double_mummy

jackomdj wrote: »

It is my birthday tomorrow

happy birthday it is also my DDs birthday tomorrow although she will be 4 so no making her own cake lol

paddy's_mum

These days of childhood pass unbelievably quickly so enjoy it while you can!

With four grandchildren, I've eaten more than my share of massively over-rolled, hard-and-tasteless-as-cardboard, frankly GREY pastry, and had to smile and swallow but their offerings are part of their unspoken love.

I feel privileged, as I'm sure you do, to be the favoured recipient!

Happy birthday.

Callie22

whitewing wrote: »

I did loads of cooking as a child. It really helped with school maths too because you got a sense of the weight of things so if a chocolate bar weighed 5 kg in a maths paper, you quickly realised that you'd got the sum wrong.

I did loads of cooking as a child (my parents were chefs) but the problem I had was that my parents taught me to cook in Imperial weights, and by the time I was in school everything had gone metric. I still have to convert grams to ounces for recipes to make sense!