Sunburnt Adventures N Many More .... Jelly Cakes and Kisses on the lips

Sunburnt Adventures N Many More ....

Jelly Cakes and kisses on the Lips by Taherreh Jalali-Dashti

My daughter has been asking me since the past few days to make her cookies for her school time snack, like most mothers I just didnt get around to it until today. Yup, I know its SATURDAY!!! 

So as a bonus I told her we'll make Jelly cakes.

Sarrah and I set out to buy the only ingredients we didnt have at home and that was desicated coconut and Rex Jelly/Jell-o-.

Just in case you want to bake with your child/children here is the recipe for my Jelly cakes:

Ingredients:

I havent given any measurements as I usually work on guesstimates, so it would not be accurate.

Sugar

Eggs

Maida

Baking Powder

Baking Soda

Butter

Milk

Vanilla extract

Jell-O-

Dessicated Coconut

Wheat Bran

Oats

Method:

Beat Sugar and butter till creamed, add eggs and beat, sift Maida, Baking Powder, Baking Soda into mixture until wet and dry ingredients are completly combined.

Add the milk, vanilla extract and stir. Add wheat bran and oats, do not stir.

Make Jell-O-, leave at room temperature.

Grease the cake pan or cupcake pan.  Add one spoonful of batter in each cupcake holder and bake at 375F or Gas Mark 5 for 15mins.

Remove cakes from oven dip into semiformed Jell-O- the roll in the desicated coconut and serve, if your kids are not already full with licking the batter. Makes for a great snack with a cold cup of milk, or hot cup of black coffee.

Kisses on the lips

Thats what my daughter asked me about yesterday.  Since the past few months my daughter has been observing people kiss on the lips, the telly, movies, cartoons and some real life too. She never mentioned anything to me up until yesterday, but has tried to kiss me and her father on the lips and we have never had the courage to address it but did have the ability to prevent it and say, "DONT DO THAT".

Yesterday when she came up to me and said, " mummy, but that boy was kissing that girl on the lips in the movie, SNOW. And you told we that I was not allowed to do that ...." I was a bit startled and amused. 

So I thought and replied, I told her that in some cultures it was acceptable to kiss on the lips (as we traveled to the states this summer, and she saw a lot of lip locking), however, it was not acceptable in our culture and once she became older like her father and myself then she too could kiss on the lips. In the mean time should anyone try to kiss her on her lip she should come and tell her father or myself.