Making Cupcakes With Baby
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My toddler has a new obsession: baking. He loves making cookies, muffins, and baking cakes. Well, what he really loves is playing with the ingredients, eating the ingredients, and generally making a mess. And eating the final result is fun too.
Today we tried cupcakes, me, toddler, and daycare baby. Toddler stands on his little chair, daycare baby is one but she’s tiny so she can sit on the counter top. They poke the flour, taste the flour, spit the flour out. Both of them want to eat all the sugar and most of the butter before it gets mixed. Toddler loves to measure things and pour things into bowls. We’d have to add 47 teaspoons of baking powder if I let him have his way. I’m just trying to ignore the little fingers in the mouth and then back into the mixing bowls, and that they have both sneezed into the sugar, and all the other baby slime that is getting into the batter…
Both of them love eggs. Toddler likes to crack eggs. We need two, he wants to put the whole box in. Baby wants to eat the eggs whole. I’m one of those city types and while I could have sworn that cows are for making skinny grande mochaccinos, I do know which end of a chicken an egg comes from and that they are not especially hygienic. I try to stop baby sucking the egg. Baby wails and throws egg on the floor. I wish we had a dog. Meanwhile toddler has been trying to crack eggs, and another one goes on the floor.
Baby twigs that we are adding lots of things to one bowl, so helps by attempting to add random objects to the cake mix – all the spoons, cheerios, the baking powder packet, etc. Toddler is trying his best to spoon the cake mix into the cupcake pan. The recipe says that it makes 12 cupcakes. After spillage, we get 10. Not bad! The mix is slightly unevenly distributed but I don’t want to hurt his feelings or seem unappreciative of his hard work so I don’t try to even it up and we bake them like that.
Cupcakes go in the oven for 20 minutes, I clean up the egg on the floor and the cake batter and flour and wash the bowls and spoons and change everyone’s clothes. Mine included. There’s a reason they take 20 minutes to bake, it’s the same time that it takes to clean up two small children and one mom.
Cupcakes come out, there’s giant cupcakes and teeny ones. Toddler wants “dat big one!” Ah, so that was his plan. If you only get one cupcake at lunchtime, make it one GREAT BIG cupcake.
We decorate the cakes with a Valentine’s day theme – we squidge on white frosting, add pink-and-red sprinkles, and enjoy the results of our hard work. Yum!
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Melissa H says...
Way too cute… I can’t wait…. daughter is 15 months and I am five months gone in pregnancy…. I will be having all the fun soon.
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