As with life, with baking there are highs and lows…
After the jubilee cake bake-off success, my daughter was inspired to try another creation. This time cupcake mix.
It all initially went to plan, until she decided to make a larger sponge, rather than cupcakes.
This was one time when doing the unexpected resulted in a spectacularly, unsuccessful outcome…
Although, the crusty bits on the side weren’t to bad dunked in milk…
I left the pan outside to see if the local wildlife might enjoy it. Unfortunately, there were no takers.
It reminded me of a similar experience, at about the same age, when I’d tried to make pavlova to surprise my mum after she’d been away for a few days.
The thing that went out into the hen run was rejected by the chooks and stubbornly resistant to dissolving even after lots of rain. I’m putting it down to not realising there was a difference between sugar and caster sugar…
It took quite a long time to get back on the pavlova horse (circa 20 years!) so I’m hoping we might see more sponge cake and cupcakes quicker than that!
Tough Mother 