‘Tis the season…

Spectacularly unsuccessful four f*cking hours spent in the kitchen baking. I made two birthday cakes for Tarly, both of which rose beautifully and then stuck to the tins, I knew I could cover the damage with icing but put too much food colouring in one of the batches of icing so it is a very garish shade of pink. I *think* I’ve made them look ok now and Tarly is delighted with them so that’s the main thing I suppose.

I also tried to make some window biscuits (with cut outs in the middle filled with crushed boiled sweets which melt and create a stained glass effect, can look beautiful if done properly) which either burnt, crumbled, fell apart when I pricked holes for ribbons to go through or simply didn’t hold any sort of shape and looked like splodges rather than festive creations of any description. The last four batched were pretty much OK as I abandoned the cut out shape idea and just baked stars with the intention of making them pretty with icing later. Except then I used up all the icing sugar on Tarly’s cakes and then when I was balancing on one of the kids stools to put something on top of the kitchen cupboards to tidy up the stool slipped and I fell on top of the cooling rack and smashed about half of them. 🙁

Kids are driving me insane with added tinsel and I feel crap 🙁

Might be back later as I’ve cancelled going out to the party tonight, I am the most dreadful company imaginable, Scarlett has lost her voice, Davies is a one boy snot factory and Ady’s holding it all together. Bet you can’t wait to spend time with me next week 😉