cupcakes

Tomorrow Tom has his end-of-year school party, and we are allocated the making of cupcakes. A classful of cupcakes. It might have been carrot sticks or party pies or packets of crisps, all of which require a simple purchase from any grocer. But it wasn't to be. Cupcakes is our lot and they will not be from a packet mix. Nadia is sure of that.

Now that's fine really as we like cooking at #9 and little cakes in pretty paper cups are no challenge. But today my wife noticed a little caveat on the blue school request sheet - no nuts and, um, no eggs. Well, nuts I can live with, as every third child seems allergic to them these days. But eggs. How is one to make a cake, or twenty cakes as in our case, without the addition of this central ingredient? (A rhetorical question, dear reader. I know that it's possible.)

So platefuls of jam and white choc chip cakes will be swanned into Hazelbrook PS in the morning, with egg.

I got an exemption.