Let them eat cake - baking with miss 4

For some reason that I'll never understand, CurlyGirl asks to bake a cake on the HOTTEST days. Of course today was no exception. 39 degrees (C) outside and she comes up to me puppy dog eyed sweetly asking to make a chocolate cake...... aww okay.

So today she did the whole thing almost completely unassisted. I wont lie, it took FOREVER as she measured out all her own ingredients and so on. I had to refrain from "fixing" measurements and having an inward fit about the mess haha. She did a great job and learned about measuring, temperature, timing, fractions, patience and more. Cooking is a fabulous accidental math-class, every time. Plus there is the practice of good food hygiene, and then afterwards practicing serving others before yourself etc etc.

we used a recipe off of Taste.com and it came out great! Here's our bake day:

Milk..... Butter....