Freemans Bay Playcentre would like to invite you to our cake stall at the Spring Ponsonby Market Day!
Saturday, September 21, 10am - 3pm.
159 Ponsonby Road, Outside Tatty's Designer Recycle.
I have been busy this week painting the sign and writing all the ingredients cards for the delicious baking. We will have whole cakes and other baked goods (all peanut free and some vegan) for sale, YUM, YUM!
All proceeds going towards the purchase of new equipment for our centres tamariki.
Mima turned two last week. All she wanted was birthday cake and for people to sing her 'Happy Birthday'. We decided not to have a party, instead her birthday was spread out over three days, so she had cake and the 'Happy Birthday' song about six times.
I made the simple and delicious banana chocolate cake by Petite Kitchen for the first three mini parties.
There is a lovely tradition in Mima's Dad's family that Nana makes a birthday cake for each grandchild on their birthday, so she did. A fantastically friendly cat face, which Mima loved.
I remember these fabulous children's birthday cakes from my childhood. One of my favorite memories is sitting down each year to choose THE cake from the Australian Woman's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book. Flicking through the pages and editing down my choice. I love that Mima will have the same memories.
I'm not sure if you can still buy the original version, there is a new one, I have to say I prefer the nostalgic original.
Visually amazing and so easy this is an Australasian classic and still used today.
Wow Mima just turned 2!
This year Moo wanted to make something special herself for Mima. I had a bunch of really nice wooden beads, so we decided to paint them and make a necklace. Moo chose the Neon Pink acrylic paint.
She handpainted the beads and once dry threaded them onto cord with some big buttons and some shiny wooden beads we had.
Tip: To make threading easier for little hands, wrap some tape tightly around the end.
Happy BIrthday Mima my little friend, love from Moo x.
The ultimate dollhouse.
I have recently completed a little project I have been thinking about for years, miniature interiors. I am slightly obsessed with thinking about interior spaces. As a print designer I am always thinking about patterns for fabric and walls.
Each image has a real object (blueberries, flower, thyme, acorn) which illustrates the scale of these models. I have created and designed everything else.
At the moment they are nice prints hanging in our lounge which I love to look at, I hope you do too x
Since we love clouds so much, I thought I would share the cloud mobile I made for Mima's room.
You will need:
Felt for cloud and raindrops, 2 of each (front and back)
Sewing scissors
Sewing machine
Pins
Embroidery thread for eyes and mouth
Thread to sew
Thread for hanging
Needle
Here is a template if you need it. You will need to print it A3.
1. First cut all your cloud and raindrop pieces.
2. Use chalk to draw on the clouds face, then embroider the eyes and mouth.
3. Pin the two cloud pieces together, front and back, right sides facing out.
4. Sew and stuff.
5. Sew up the hole, I also did this using a sewing machine.
6. Repeat with each raindrop.
7. Lay out the cloud and raindrops on the floor.
8. Then connect each raindrop to the cloud using thread.
9. Hang and enjoy.
Moo's grandma Mama Su has just been to up to stay for a few days. She came bearing these super cute Panda cookie cutters for Moo, so we had to set aside an afternoon to making Panda cookies.
They came with instructions and recipe, however we couldn't read them so we made up our own recipe. We worked out we needed a recipe that didn't rise and spread to much as it would distort the cookies.
Basic Cookies
Ingredients:
50g soften butter
70g sugar
1 egg yoke
3 tsp milk
150g plain flour
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tbsp cocoa
2 tsp hot water
Method:
1. Cream butter and sugar til pale and creamy. Add egg yolk and mix well.
2 Add in the milk mix well.
3. Divide the cookie mixture into thirds. ⅓ for lemon cookies - 1 tsp lemon juice
⅔ for cocoa cookies - add 1 Tbsp cocoa dissolved in 2tsp hot water
4. Gradually add seived flour, 50g to the lemon mixture and 100g to the cocoa mixture. Mix well.
5. Roll out 3mm thin. Cut the faces and details from the lemon cookies and panda bodies from the cocoa cookies and piece together.
Bake in preheated oven at 180°c for 12-15mins.
Makes 20 little cookies, simple and they don't need to be iced as they're so cute they won't last long.
or if you really wanted to you could cookie the layers separately and stick together with a little icing (but seems like a lot more work to me).
MIMA + MOO t-shirts are now available! Click here to see more
Wow well we just turned ONE and to celebrate we have done a super cute range of T-shirts!
Mr Storm (bag pictured), Miss Cloud (t-shirt pictured), and The Raindrop Gang!
Available in sizes 2-6, if you are interested in bigger kids sizes please let us know and we can add them.
T-shirts $29.95
Sweaters $39.95
Tote Bags $29.95
Please cold wash inside out and line dry x
