Frosting

So my three year old daughter has this thing for cooking. Ever since she was little whenever one of us have been in the kitchen she had to be plopped on the bench "helping". Lately she has taken to grabbing mumma's iphone and while hiding under her bed covers watching cake decorating tutorials on YouTube!! So funny!

For fathers day this year she insisted we make a dinosaur cake, so we followed the recipe and created a three year old masterpiece - and she loved every minute of it!! Yesterday we were having a home day so I though lets get creative so we whipped up some cupcakes and I let her go for it..she added the colouring to the butter cream to get these wonderfully garish colours! Perfect were her words!! We were so pleased with the finished product ( a little too pleased as I can't stop eating them ) but the process was what made the whole experience magical. Watching my little girl in sheer delight doing something so simple together. She has picked up all the terminology and was throwing out such words as offset spatula, turning table, crumb layer and many more - she is an amazing little thing!

Further more it really was a positive educational experience from measuring skills, following recipes, colour mixing, fine motor skill development it covered a great many things! definitely something we will do again and again :)