Waitrose Summer Cup Cake Kits review

New Summer Cup Cake Kits from Waitrose

Make your neighbours green with envy at your summer celebrations by presenting perfectly turned out cup cakes thanks to Waitrose.

New from Waitrose the Eton Mess Cup Cake Kit and the Buck’s Fizz Cup Cake Kit come with almost everything you need to make the perfect cupcakes. Simply add butter, egg and cream and produce the most deliciously different cakes for any occasion.

The Eton Mess Cup Cake Kit makes six delightfully rich vanilla and strawberry sponge cakes with raspberry jam and meringue pieces to decorate. Perfect for munching while watching Wimbledon or for serving at your very own garden party.

Alternatively, the Buck’s Fizz Cup Cake Kit makes six intensely zesty orange cakes with real fruit pieces and a buttercream and popping candy topping. Perfect for a Jubilee street party or summer celebration.

The cakes worked perfectly when I had my Jubilee party I found the instructions very easy to follow. The only thing  I would like to see is the price come down as at £3.99 I feel they are quite expensive. But they are one of the best out of the packet cup cake mixes I have ever used.

Eatons Mess Cup cakes perfect for  Wimbledon.

( I was sent the cake kits for review and my opinions are entirely my own )

Lying to your kids .. would you ? should you ? linky

We perhaps all lie in some form of other to our children after all they are only kids once be it from the  tooth fairy to Father Christmas. Though such things as Father Christmas there is an element truth to it I am not going to go into the history of Father Christmas but there is truth to him  of course!

The real Father Christmas in  Lapland.

Mums aren't supposed to lie  -- ever. But, of course, we routinely do. Our fibs can be damaging  -- or not. It all depends on how and when we tell them.


Little white lies


I suppose its a case of how you justify them ?


I remember my son was younger was watching the Simpsons ( I know don't go there!) And there was one particular sketch that involved itchy and scratchy and they basically killed the three bear behind the door cartoon style and the blood seeped underneath the door. So as a result of this my son asked me what was going on! So I replied to my son telling him that itchy and Scratchy had hit the door too hard and made the 3 bears spill their pot of jam So basically I was telling him a white lie to protect him as at the time he suffered from night terrors.


Honesty is really dependant on your child's age, but don't lie about something that will come to haunt you in years to come.


.Another example of me lying *white lie * to my son is when it came to sponsorship for a charity run at school where the money is going to help an Orphanage in Uganda and Sixth former s from my sons school going out for four weeks to help and embark on new projects etc. So I sold a phone that I no longer required  and invented lots of people that wanted to help with the sponsorship of course there was real people on there. But the majority were invented I did this not becuase there was a competition going on to raise the most sponsership ( as there wasn't ) but of out parental love to give my son a boast of confidence after being bullied at school. So all I know that in this instance this *white lie * has helped him with his confidence *


I have set a linky up which I hope you will take part if if you so wish. It would be super if you could link back to me but its not law ( except in Narnia ). Bare with me as this is my first linky I thought I would do it about lying, bit of an odd topic to do on a linky but thats me ! I would like to keep the lies linky within the realms of childhood as interesting a your blog post is likely to be about your *white lies * to your husband/partner etc about where that pair of Jimmy Choos came from in your wardrobe !


So it could be  a white lie you were told as a child, or one you tell to your grand children etc. So I hope you will link up. When I figure it out I will think about a badge ! 

Caption Saturday #satcap 23/6/2012

Rainy day giveaway

Awwh the British weather is fabulous isn't it  so just in case your children are driving you to distraction I thought I would treat you all to a little giveaway ! There is something for all ages in this givway I bough these items out of my own pocket  because I am kind like that!.

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White Chocolate and Strawberry Cheesecake

Ingredients

175g shortbread biscuits for extra flavour try using lemon or ginger shortbread biscuits
50 unsalted butter, softened
200g melted white chocolate
300g full fat or medium fat soft cream cheese
200 fromage frais
225g strawberries, roughly chopped

A lush Strawberry

1. Put the shortbread in a plastic bag and bash with a rolling pin until they resemble breadcrumbs. mix the biscuits crumbs together with softened butter and press firmly onto the base and sides of a 20cm springform tin. Refridgerate until needed. melt the white chocolate in a bowl in the microwave and set aside until needed.

2. beat together the cream cheese and froamge frais until smooth and thick. Add the strawberries to the cheese mixture with the melted white chocolate and mix. Spoon the cheesecake filling into the biscuit case. level the top and chill for about 4 hours until set.

(Strawberry photo of Mark Willis )