Fairy Cakes

(How To Be A Domestic Goddess)

A rainy Saturday afternoon, a bored baby...what better activity than making fairy cakes?

Mummy measures out ingredients, small child tips them into bowl (mostly into bowl...), we share the stirring. Fifteen minutes in the oven and hey presto - twelve light-as-a-feather, fluffy fairy cakes and the kind of aroma that would sell your house in seconds (yes, I know it's meant to be baking bread but this is every bit as good).

Just one tip: do not answer the telephone in between icing and pouring on the hundreds and thousands. As I have now discovered, the result of this fundamental error is sprinkle-free cakes and small, brightly coloured sugar balls bouncing (in their aptly named hundreds and thousands) into the furthest reaches of the kitchen.

And now I am off to remove them from the toy bucket,,,