Blessed Are the Cakemakers

Nicole has gone away again on business, this time to Melbourne to do something shifty with the Cochrane people, and she'll be away for a week.

All this is a little distressing for Eloise, and she was a bit upset yesterday.

I tried to cheer her up with an offer of playground fun, but instead she said she wanted to make some cupcakes.

So we went off and made a list of the things we needed, went shopping, and when we returned home, she went next door to play with Ben and Mikey.

After I'd extricated her from that, we made the cakes. They were chocolate cupcakes with a ganache topping.

They were reasonably disastrous.