Morrisons does it again! Party Cake Kit

I'm becoming quite a fan of Morrisons and especially the cake kits they now sell.

Today we tried the Vanilla Flavour Party Cake kit which serves 10. At the time of buying this last week there was some sort of offer on the Cake kits, i have a feeling it was 2 for £2 (My memory is a bit rubbish..sorry!) which really is a bargain and a couple of these would go down well at a party and i suppose if you wanted to decorate them with other sweets you have purchased then you could. The kits are quick to make, even easy for a child to do as long as parents supervise with the actual cooking. Mine have been making these kits each weekend and enjoying them afterwards!. This kit gets decorated with Dolly Mixtures and the sponge is perfect. Really light and fluffy and when it's iced it's sweet but not too sweet if you know what i mean. There is no artificial colours or flavours and they seem to have all the ingredients down perfectly. Usually with kits there can be not enough icing so the cake never looks like it does on the box but this was just right.

As an added bonus it even comes with it's own dispoosable baking tray so you don't have to worry if you will have the right sized tray at home. Something which i always find a bit of a problem when buying kits and then bringing them home. Don't get me wrong i also bake without taking the easy route of cake kits but as me and the kids bake on a frequent basis sometimes it's nice to have everything there and weighed out for you. I usually find it creates less of a mess in the kitchen too!

So ten out of ten to Morrisons with this kit. I will be making sure this is a regular on the shopping list.

How do i get it to look like THAT?

Today started off with some baking. This is becoming a habit. I didn't have the cherries to do the muffins so we made cookies followed by a carrot cake mixture that i purchased from Morrisons. You could say it's the lazy option and maybe it is but i have three kids and 101 jobs to do and yet still i do my best to find time to bake with them on weekends.

How they get the carrot cake to look like the box cover i will never know. There is no way enough icing included and we had to use Betty Crocker buttercream icing for the top of the cake. The icing is not that colour either. Well not if you follow the directions given. It's more of a yellow colour and looks like 80's school custard.

Looking back we should of kept the cake as it looked like above as it looked ok if not a bit sloppy in the middle, but no... daughters one and two wanted it iced on the top too.

As you can see it looked rather odd when completed. Luckily it tasted rather good otherwise i may have marched myself into Morrisons and asked someone to show me how they get it to look like the cake pictured on the cover. I would still like to see it done. So if anyone ever purchases this pack and you can make it resemble the cake shown with the ingredients they provide, well i will take my hat off to you and even do a little dance.

The cookies were a quick and easy recipe but darling daughter made only six. This really won't do as it means i will have to eat the extra one.

Aside from the baking, washing clothes and mountains of housework i was browsing clothes for half hour or so today. I found a fun website where i can go into a virtual dressing room and select clothes and put them together as an outfit to see if you like them when combined. It reminded me of those paper dolls you could get as a child but much more enjoyable as you can really buy these outfits and you actually put them on when they arrive and you don't need to stick them to yourself with little paper tabs. To check them out visit the link.

BooHoo Wardrobe

Here are a couple of outfits i made for fun. The prices are very reasonable and i will be using the wardrobe in the future to purchase outfits.

Song for today is Bruno Mars- The Lazy Song. I caught myself singing AND dancing to this in the local co-op. Oh the shame.

Anyway it's off to bed for me as i have a terrible sore throat that has got worse all day. Hoping a few throat sweets, a good book and maybe a few episodes of My family will get me feeling slightly better for tomorrow.