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Friday 15th June 2012 – 'Intent' (167/366)

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The Boy received a 'That's Not My Colouring Book' colouring book from a friend for his birthday and has really taken to it. He sat earlier choosing his picture, then I could hear him saying, "You need a red, an orange and a blue, but we haven't got an orange so I'll use yellow." I looked up and he was colouring in the picture as the example one was coloured. I was very impressed with my little man.

Sandcastle Birthday Cake

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A month or so ago I bought a silicon cake mould from Aldi in the shape of a sandcastle. At only £3.99 I couldn't not buy it, even though I had no idea what I was going to use it for; I'd already decided on The Boy's birthday cake and had no idea what this one could be used for.

In the end I decided to use it for The Boy's family birthday party today. I've never used a silicon cake mould before and was nervous. I was also a bit nervous because of the size of the mould and had no idea how much mixture would be needed. After a helpful tweet from Clare at Seasider In The City pointing me in the direction of this post, I discovered I'd need 9 eggs and 18 ounces of flour for the madeira cake!

Luckily it only took an hour and half to cook, and peeled out of the mould really easily. Today while The Boy was napping, I decorated it with some simply shell-shape chocolates.

I was sceptical that it looked ok, but The Boy was more than happy with it. Look at his little face when he saw the cake mummy made him: