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Baking

I love baking. It has a therapeutic effect on me. I have been collecting recipes for over 15 years. Not too many of them have been tried so I thought I would make a new goal. I would try to bake a new dish - mains and desserts, each week. This way I will not just make desserts, and the good ones will be used again and I will share them with you. It is exciting to be able to use new ingredients I have not used before. As some my dear friends are GREAT chefs, I will happily accept any tips or variations and be even more happy to try it again!!

Today, I thought I would make a lemon cream cake along with some vanilla muffins with banana and strawberry icing.  The bowls were happily liked clean by Rangikawea and Renata John. Renata periodically popped his head up and kept asking, "Is the baking ready?"
Well there is only one way to stop those kinds of questions. Get him to help and he did quite happily. It went something like this:

Mix the frosting.......


Spread the frosting......




And my favorite..... 

Lick the frosting!!!!!

I must say I had a good laugh, don't worry his routine only lasted for about 3 cupcakes then when he realized he could actually eat one, he was gone!!!

The lemon cake is for dessert tonight so I will let you know how that one goes, I will say, it smells soooo  yummy!!!

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