Our Great Family Bake Off

June's cupcakes

This weekend, December decided that she would like to run a family version of the Great British Bake Off.

Her plan was that Daddy would film her and June in action and then he and I would judge the final results.

In practice, June needed a certain amount of support (Daddy had to hold her mixing bowl to stop it falling off the side whilst she was mixing the cake batter!) which meant that filming had to be abandoned.

December chose to make oaty chunky cookies and June settled on vanilla cupcakes with pink orange flavoured icing and decorations.

As we have a narrow kitchen the girls couldn't cook at the same time so December worked out how long each recipe would take to complete and it was agreed that they could each have 90 minutes.

When we entered the dining room to begin our deliberations we discovered that December and June had set up the table with a tasting plate, forks, a cutting knife, napkins and a 1st place and a 2nd place slip.

They then each brought a plate in with their best cakes/cookies prettily arranged.

It was very difficult to decide the overall winner as they were so different. In the end, we created a certificate of achievement for each child, focusing on an aspect of their bake that we thought was especially delicious. June's was for the softest cupcakes and December's the most chunky cookies. They were both delighted with their awards which are now hanging in pride of place in our dining room :)