Amy Lane over at Cooking, Cakes and Children runs a montly Bake It! Club, in which she invites people to bake a certain recipe and blog / post pictures of the results.
This month’s recipe was Apple Crumble Cupcakes, and happily, her post coincided with my mum handing me a bag full of cooking apples picked from the tree in her garden, so there was literally no excuse not to have a go!
I have been doing a bit of baking with Lilly lately, and we’ve both really enjoyed it, so I enlisted her help to make these rather delicious sounding cakes.
It started well…
Lilly helped me to mix the ingredients for the crumble topping while I peeled and cut up the apples. But then…
… the eating began!
Soon Lilly had decided that eating cake mixture would pretty much be her one and ONLY contribution to the cake making process, so it was left to me to try to manage the rest of the actual preparation, while frantically trying to stop Lilly from eating it all…
Somehow, I managed to create three bowls – of apples, crumble mix and cupcake batter…
Then it was time to assemble them. “Don’t you want to help mummy make the cakes, Lilly?” I asked. “NO, I lick the bowl for you”, came the reply. Tsk.
Anyway…
Meanwhile, I was lucky by this point to get a word out of Lilly, who was mainly doing this:
Sigh. Such a mother and daughter bonding experience!
Anyway they were soon out of the oven and looking pretty gorgeous (if I do say so myself)
And then, Lilly finally agreed to help me again. Help me eat them, that is
I have to say Amy, they are delicious. Hubby loved them too. Luckily I still have lots of apples left from my mum’s garden, so I think we will be making lots more of these Apple Crumble Cupcakes… so thanks!
How lovely – she’s such a cutie! My daughters love to get involved with licking the bowl too
Glad you enjoyed the recipe, thanks for joining in, x
Your daughter and cupcakes are gorgeous!!!! Yours have turned out much neater than mine – think I overloaded the cake cases a tad. I live bake it club – great excuse for sweet treats!!!!
I think I have Lilly to thank for them not being too overloaded – after she’d been tucking in to the mixture there wasn’t really that much left
That is almost EXACTLY what happens when Big M and I do baking. I have decided that if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, and we share the bowl licking responsibilities
Good plan!!
I’m going to have to get in on this act…love baking…hopefully I’ll still have time when I’m back at work…Lily’s help was too cute!
They look delicious, absolutely! And how cute is Lilly!!!
Thanks everyone – she’s just as headstrong as she is cute!