Wallace Cotton, purveyor of beautiful linen have just released the 2010 'Ruby's tea towel'. Ruby is a 13 year old cancer survivor who has designed a teatowel for the last three years to raise money for Starship Children's Hospital. The tea towels are a bargain $10 each, and all profits ($6) go to Starship. I bought one to frame and hang in Daisy's room, alongside 'Ruby's cupcakes', the 2009 edition. I have an extra 'Gingerbread friends' teatowel, so if you fancy it just leave a comment on this post telling us what your favourite baked treat was as a child. We will draw a winner next Friday, and send it out to you.
Daisy and I made a batch of Ruby's gingerbread men the other day. Little fingers were very keen to help, and the wee man was very nearly popped into her mouth...no doubt he would have tasted rather more exciting than her rice cakes!
Yay giveaways on the blog! One of my favourite childhood baking treats (that hasn't followed me into adulthood) is butterfly cakes...the cupcakes where you cut out the centre to make 'butterfly wings' which you stick back in after filling the gap with jam or jelly. So pretty and also yummy!
ReplyDeleteAs I child I used to love Nana's Peppermint Creams - little morsels containg cream cheese, cocoa, icing sugar & peppermint essence. Nana would keep them in the freezer for little hands to sneak. They were such a treat! I’ve never made them, but I must try.
ReplyDeleteMine isn't really baking, but such a hit with little girls - Fairy Bread!! It was even on Outrageous Fortune last week - so cute and yummy!! - Leah
ReplyDeleteMy favourite baking treat as a child was pikelets - not because they were a culinary masterpiece but it meant that I was baking them with my lovely nana who let me put as much cream and jam on them as I liked !
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I don't think I ate many baked things while I was growing up (oh sad deprivation in Asia!) but one thing that does spring to mind is our yearly tradition of having a solid chocolate Christmas log cake. So good!!!
ReplyDeletemine was pancakes with lemon and sugar, every now and then we would have that for dinner my dad would make them and I still remember how excited i would be !!
ReplyDeleteI actually loved gingerbread men - for my fourth birthday my mum painstakingly made enough for me and all my friends, and iced them, each one with the name of a friend stuck on with soup letters. Unfortunately I was quite the food fiend even back then, and went downstairs first thing in the morning and bit off all their heads! I cringe now (and I bet Mum was not impressed!) but I obviously enjoyed them. ;-)
ReplyDeleteMy Mum baked cheesecakes from the Edmonds book (the only cookbook she had). They had a pastry bottom, a spoonful of jam and then a cake type topping finished with a twirl of left over pastry. The best part was pulling the top off to see what jam mum had used. She won many prizes at the Waikato Winter Show for her baking, all done in a coal range. Peaches
ReplyDeleteMy Mum has never enjoyed cooking or baking (uses precious gardening time apparently!), but she did use to make spiced fruit biscuits from the New Zealand WW cookbook, they have cinnemon, nutmeg and sultanas , and make a massive batch, a priority with five kids I guess! I make them now myself, and I love the fact she has a baking triumph (unlike the curried eggs with no curry powder, among other "treats"!)
ReplyDeleteI just found your blog - to say you have some amazing stuff is an understatement! Can't wait to see what you make next!
ReplyDeleteHi - I loved my grandma's cooking - she is the best cook and her Louise cake is awesome.
ReplyDeleteI love your blog and have made a few things lately including your lemon muffins - which were lovely!
Hi, neat tea towel :) I loved lamingtons as a child, can remember making them in 'cooking club' at primary school yum!
ReplyDeleteI must confess that I was one of those kids who was way too impatient to wait for the bell to ring on the oven. Does licking the beaters or mixing spoon count as a favourite baking treat?! Yum.
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