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Cooking Time with Mumma – Yummy Reindeer Cup Cakes

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Christmas is just a few weeks away and it’s time to bake some yummy cakes! Mumma bakes varieties of cakes every year and this year I decided to help mumma with her baking. After a lot of brainstorming we decided to make Reindeer cupcakes. Sounds yummy, right? Last year we went to a Christmas party and we had these yummy and delicious cakes, so we decided to make them at home this Christmas.

I invited some of my friends to my place in the evening and I’m going to surprise them with my baking skills. Dadda will also be very happy when he comes back home in the evening. So let’s start with our mission!

We gathered all the ingredients required to bake the cake. Here are the ingredients, if you want to make the Reindeer cakes at home:

• Betty Crocker Super Moist Cake Mix – 1 packet
• Egg – 3
• Vegetable Oil – ¼ cup
• Water – ¾ cup
• Betty Crocker chocolate icing – 1 tub
• Nestle Smarties
• Pretzels – 1 Packet

Mumma set the oven to preheat at 200°C and placed the cupcake moulds in a 12 cup tray. Then we mixed all the ingredients – cake mix, eggs, vegetable oil and water, to make a smooth cake batter. Once the batter was ready, I filled 1/3rd portion of each cupcake mould with the batter.

Mumma then placed the baking tray inside the oven and we baked for the cakes for about 20 minutes. Them mumma put a skewer inside on cupcake to check whether it was cooked or not. It came out clean, so she took out the baking tray and kept it to cool down.

The most interesting part starts now!

We took out the cupcakes from baking tray and placed them on the icing tray. Then with help of an icing knife I coated each cake with a generous amount of Betty Crocker chocolate icing. By the time I finished icing the cakes, mumma cut the pretzels in shape of antlers.

I pushed two antler shaped pretzels in each cupcake to make the reindeer antlers. Then I placed two same coloured Smarties for eye and a different coloured Smarties for the nose. We did the same to all the 12 cupcakes and finally we were done!
The reindeer cupcakes looked amazing! They were so nice that I wanted to eat them then and there, but I decided to wait for my friends and dadda.

Finally, all of them came home and they were really surprised that we did such a great work. Everyone praised us for baking such yummy and delicious cakes for them. Mumma made some more snacks and orange juice for us. We had a great time together!
I promised mumma I would help her bake the Christmas cake on the Christmas Eve and she readily agreed. Baking cakes is fun and I shared my experience with my friends at my nursery. They are very excited and prepared to try their hands at baking as well.



My First Day at Nursery

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Going to nursery is fun, lots of activities, playing and having a great time with friends. I have been attending Deans Community High School, Livingston for some time now and I have made a lot of friends. While I was talking to Nani yesterday, she asked me whether I was enjoying nursery. I said yes! Then Nani said mamma and dadda did a great job preparing me for the first day at nursery.

The first day at nursery! I don’t remember too many things about my first day at Deans Community High School, so I decided to ask dadda about it.

I had my bath and wore a pretty dress. Now it’s time for breakfast and then I will be leaving for nursery. Dadda drives me to nursery every day and today I decided to hear the story about my first day at nursery. We finished breakfast and dadda took out his car from the garage; I kissed mom goodbye and sat inside the car. Then I asked dadda to tell me about my first day at nursery.

And here the story begins….

With a smile on his face, dadda said, starting nursery was a big milestone for me and my parents. They wanted to put me in the best nursery, so they started searching for a good nursery in our area. They visited a number of nurseries and finally after a week they found the perfect one.

They interacted with the staffs and the head of the institution and finally when mom and dadda were convinced they decided to enrol me in that nursery. But dadda wanted me to visit the nursery and see whether I liked it or not. So the next day all three of us again visited the nursery. He said I was very happy meeting children of my age. But at that point of time I didn’t know I had to spend hours away from mom and dadda.

Dadda said they were very concerned about my reaction on the very first day of nursery. So, they started telling me stories of their childhood, nursery days and how they enjoyed with friends. I still remember dadda took out an album with photos from his nursery days. It was so amazing, he promised to make a similar album for me as well.

Finally the day arrived, when they had to take me nursery for the first time. Mom dressed me in my favourite pair of jeans and t-shirt. She also prepared my favourite breakfast. Then it was time to click photos – My First Day at Nursery photo! Dadda drove us to Deans Community High School and as we reached, there were many other parents waiting with their children. As the bell rang children were taken inside and I got scared too; but then dadda smiled and said, “don’t worry I’ll wait for you here” and kissed me.

As we came close to my nursery, I asked “did I cry?” He said no, you are a brave girl so you didn’t cry and made us proud. Dadda said their efforts were fruitful; they prepared me well so there was no problem during the transition. Finally we reached nursery and I kissed dadda goodbye.