Buttercream Day.

Today has been mild with heavy showers interspersed with a few bright spells. Driving to work I was almost blinded (even with my sunglasses on) when the sun suddenly appeared and shone down like a laser from an alien spacecraft.

Today it's been all about buttercream. In the morning I made 3 batches and used 2 and a half pounds of butter and the same of icing sugar. That was just enough for the 2 big cakes and I did try to keep it as thin as possible. After work I made yet more buttercream for the lemon cupcakes which have a filling of lemon curd and the Red Velvet cupcakes which have cherry jam on. I also put buttercream and decorations on 36 of my slightly reject cupcakes for Peter to take to work tomorrow.

At school I was expecting to be making more salt dough with the other half of the class but when I got there the remaining children had been given the salt dough left over from yesterday to make their decorations in the morning. That's a shame as half the fun (and learning) was in the making of the dough; taking turns to measure out the ingredients and stirring them all together. Instead I did handwriting with small groups of children. Maybe if there is some spare time later in the term I can make salt dough with the remaining children.