The companion catalogue to our nursery collection catalogue, Memoire d'Enfant includes our toys for older children as well as some truly gorgeous, collectible childhood gifts - many are gift boxed and all are, well, just seriously lovely!
Over the next week or two we will run through the catalogue with you, highlighting the various collections, but for now we've been busy celebrating publication with a bit of cake baking!
One of the most loved collections in Memoire d'Enfant is our fairytale range, Once Upon a Time (or Il Etait Une Fois, in French) and three of the little mice in this collection have been busy baking celebration cakes.
Here they are having fun in the kitchen!
Oh so simple recipe:
Celebration Cakes
For the cake:
110 g butter
110 g caster sugar
110 g self raising flour
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tsp baking powder
For the icing:
200g icing sugar
50 ml warm water
Food colouring
Sprinkles
Put everything in a bowl and whisk like mad until it's light and fluffy. (How easy is that!) Spoon the mixture into a square 20cm cake tin (buttered and lined) and bake for about 15 - 20 mins in a moderate over (180*c) until pale golden.
Cool on a rack then cut into squares.
For the icing simple sieve the icing sugar into a bowl and add the warm water, a little at a time, mixing well until you have an icing the consistency of double cream. Then divide into portions and add a a drop of chosen food colouring to each batch.
Ice the cakes and cover with sprinkles. We popped them into paper cases to make them look nice too.
Ta da!
