The 5 minute chocolate cake

Daz got sent an email yesterday that had this recipe for the 5 minute chocolate cake. Dessert tonight was that recipe! Oh yum! Daz put his bakers hat on, whipped some cream and we got to eat yummy warm chocolate cake! Love it!

 

 

 

 

And here is the recipe!

5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE
4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
A small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug (MicroSafe)
Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well.  Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well..
Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed!
Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.
EAT ! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).
And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world?
Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!

 

I have no idea where it originated from but absolutely am incredibly grateful for it

 

enjoy J

burger cheese & blue juice

Do you know what burger cheese is? Well Tyler does. It took me at least three "what's?", "huh's?" and finally a "show me" to figure it out. Obviously we have had burgers a little too often when our 3 yo relates singles cheese slices with burgers. But then this is the child that calls his favourite orange juice 'blue juice'. Figure that one out. the closes thing to blue on the bottle is a purple label and lid!

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chasies, spiderman & my boys

I realised the other day that my pursuit to get that 'perfect' picture means that I am missing those moments that I love to capture with my camera. It made me tell myself it is ok to take everyday moments in our lives. Caden is reluctant to sit for photos whereas Tyler loves it. So I have tried really hard to capture my kids as they are not how they can appear to be. Caden is my elusive boy. he runs in the opposite direction (often) when I have the camera out - which is a daily event around our house. Today I tried to catch them unawares. Well being the smart munchkin's that they are Caden turned it into a game of chasies and peek-a-boo! Spiderman is a fascinator and Daddy tried to ride Tyler's bike!

   

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testing

trying something out

trying to get a bottom space here!

"I just want a rest today mama"

  Five minutes later....

Enjoy J

Caden's Funny

Daz introduced me to bejewelled blitz on  Facebook the other day. yeah good another  big time waster that I got sucked into. Not good. Anyhow Caden loves to play it too. After Daz was playing for a little while Caden walks up to him, watches then says "You know Dad you get better points if you boom 5 in a row" hmmm thanks for that. Oh they catch on far too quickly

funny fellow

 

 

 

My Tyler is our funny fellow! He cries when I put the camera away and pulls faces like this when I take it out..

I love this boy!

Enjoy J

Art and craft by Caden

Not that long ago we struggled to get Caden to look at books and pencils and colouring in, at school he only did painting because he had to. No we are seeing a whole other side to him. He loves to write and draw and colour and paint and create. His imagination has really begun to develop in such amazing ways. HE names all his pictures and they all tell a story. He loves to draw pictures of our family. During football season he was drawing the Broncos playing and selecting the correct colours for his teams. Recently at school the first thing he does to start the day is straight to the drawing corner. At kinder orientation he didn't really settle till we got out pencils and paper and he was right. Sent us on our way. Today as we were cleaning up I rediscovered the ever growing stack of art by Caden form school and home. So in true me style I photographed it as I feel that I can much easily record these memories easier than keeping mountains of paper with paint on them. While it doesn't retain the textures it certainly records where he is at the moment.

 

 

Enjoy J

Sidewalk paint

I was doing a browse of Jessica Sprague's blog the other day as I haven't visited there for a while and she had some fabulous pics of her kiddos with sidewalk paint and a link on how to make it. See her post here. Anyway being so super easy and having read it before doing the groceries I grabbed some cornflour (or cornstarch in American speak lol!) some water, food colouring and a 6 pan muffin tray, oh and some paintbrushes!. One sure fire way of kids having a blast! Even Miss N from next door couldn't get enough of it!

Long weekend play with G'ma and Papa

We visited G'ma and Papa and they also come to our place this weekend. The boys had a ball as they always do! They decided to go 'fishing' at G'ma and Papas with some fishing rods and foam fish. they had a ball. We took them to the park in the afternoon as Daz and Papa were at golf. The kids just love being outside. IT was cut short though when Mum was very closely swooped by a magpie. Clearly we got too close to its tree.

enjoy J