Small girl ditched Cbeebies for the Food Network when she was about 3. She loves any cooking programme : Jamie, Masterchef, Great British Menu, Matilda and the Ramsey Bunch she’ll watch them all. When she’s ‘grown up’ she wants to own her own restaurant.
Her favourite, as is mine, is The Great British Bake Off. I always try to encourage the kids interests and if I can share in them I always try too so snuggling watching Bake Off with cake is one of our favourite things.
Even with the big new channel change she insisted she was going to watch. Though Sandy and Noel are in no way as funny as Mel and Sue in her opinion ,she’s stuck with it!!
Though sometimes I pick up on signs that maybe she loves it a bit too much..
1) The Great Soggy Bottom Meltdown
Small girl loves baking, she’s quite skilled. School cake sales or coffee mornings are her favourite when she can bake at home then show off her wares. This is all well and good when it’s all going right, when her pies are perfect, her buns beautiful and her shortbread superb.
However, when it goes wrong you can witness a tantrum Gordon Ramsey would be proud of. The most recent one occurred after small girl had been making a cake. I had interfered (because I never learn!) Cake came out most unsatisfactory. Cue the 9yo equivalent of a toddler tantrum ending in her storming into her room with the words “I am not serving that it has a soggy bottom!”
2)Her life ambitions are a little off the wall
The phrase “all I want in life is to have an oven with a prooving drawer” has been uttered more than once. A ‘big posh’ food mixer is on her Christmas list!
3) She is a proper food critic
Indoors at home I find it pretty quirky and adorable when she comments that the cookies you’ve made are a little overbaked. Eating out is a little more blush worthy though when she becomes food critic 2017. Her chopping up a pie, declaring the pastry too dry makes me feel as though I have one of those unbearable children better placed in a Roald Dahl story. She’s not I promise! All Bake Offs fault!
4)She has delusions her daddy is like Paul Hollywood
Small girl maintains that her daddy looks like and bakes like Paul Hollywood.
She is deluded. . and possibly has been touch of hero worship going on.
We also must never tell daddy about this , he’d be chuffed to bits.
5) Play doh becomes very competitive
Play doh out.
Her soft toys come out.
Small girl v mummy at play doh bake off.
The soft toys play the part of the judges. Strangely though, small girl voices the judges and though their opinion on my play doh cakes are usually scathing they are always very complementary about hers! She’s been even known to get the famous Hollywood handshake for her croissants! !
I’m mummy, I find all this quirkiness the cutest thing ever. . Though I’m also hoping her restaurant ownership comes off, I’d never cook again! !
Oh wow, your daughter sounds amazing. Love that she thinks her daddy is like Paul Hollywood. Hahaha! #Chucklemums
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I have a 7 year old bake off obsessive daughter (I’m just about to publish post with reference to that!) We too have bake off style judging and we have to have complete silence when she watches it on catch up, I’m not even allowed to eat cake audibly! But I love watching it with her it’s our thing! The show is defo inspiring children to cook and bake. #chucklemums
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Oooo we may have future bake off superstars on our hands!!
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My little lad loves baking with me. Mainly so he can scoff the raw ingredients methinks! Thanks so much for linking up with #chucklemums 😀
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Ha ha she sounds hilarious! I dream of the day that my children can bake me yummy cakes 🙂
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LOL sounds like great fun. I could do with a cake baker here, although she probably get really mad with me because I’m totally rubbish at baking. Thank you for linking up to #EatSleepBlogRT 🎉
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Hee hee – my 5 year oid boy chooses pre-recorded Bake Off over kids telly too!!! #eatsleepblogRT
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At least we should always be good for cake in a few years!
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Haha this is brilliant – love how she is a food critic, need to get her on a bake off junior programme! #eatsleepblogrt
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Ha Ha that’s her plan!!
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Haha, I love the soggy bottom line! It sounds like your daughter is a master in the kitchen – I could do with some lessons! Thanks so much for sharing with us and for hosting #Blogstravaganza this week! Xx
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She’s a very temperamental chef!!! You’re very welcome!!!x
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That is super cute! Play doh is great for any budding chef to practice on.
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It seems to work as good practice here!!
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Ah how cute! It is a brilliant show to be fair! I chuckled at the Paul Hollywood being her dad thing, haha. #blogstravaganza
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Ha ha poor deluded girl!!!!
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This is brilliant – so funny and sweet! An oven with a prooving drawer –
omg haha! #Blogstravaganza
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I know! What kind of mother am I not meeting that small request?!
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Oh I love that she loves watching baking shows. It’s brilliant! #Blogstravaganza
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Total favourite thing!!!
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Hahaha, this is hilarious! And so adorable:)
Love that she criticizes restaurant food too…pastry too dry! Brilliant!
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I’m sat going sssshhhhhh x
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My kids adore bake off, shame they now judge my baking… 😦 #blogstravaganza
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Yes I’m also judged and mocked!!! Baking is not my strong suit!!!
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Haha I love that she becomes a proper critic! I wouldn’t dare let her near anything I’ve baked… she’d have a field day! #blogstravaganza
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Same as me!!!! My baking is atrocious!!!
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It sounds like she has a definite goal set for her future…I really hope she achieves it. It sounds like she is very driven! #blogstravaganza
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She is at the moment ,be interesting to see if she changes her mind as she gets older!
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I think I am the only person in the country that doesn’t watch GBBO regularly, I watch it if I catch it on but I don’t go out of my way to watch it *shock horror* #blogstravaganza
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Ha!!! Good for you! I’m not sure it’s something I’d ever have watched if it weren’t for the littlest one!
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That is brilliant! For starters you are not being subjected to cbeebies, so that’s a win. But you get to snuggle and eat cake, awesome. I now really want to go for a meal with her just to be there as she decides whether the scones are up to scratch or not #blogstravaganza
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Ha ha !!!!
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I love that your daughter is loving the bake off, I should get my daughter (and son when he’s older) more involved in the kitchen x
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It’s lovely….but I’d quite like my kitchen back at some point!!!x
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Kids are so funny. I can see my middle child getting a bit hooked to a baking show.
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Im super excited for Ben to get into baking! Will give a whole new meaning to a soggy bottom hahaha #Blogstravaganza
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This is hilarious! Love that she had a meltdown over a soggy bottom. At least the girl as high standards. Fingers crossed for the restaurant! #ItsOK
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