Hi there everyone 😀
Following our big day out at Shugborough we opted for something a bit more low key and less strenuous for our second day with Bobby … I was hoping that it would be just as much fun though.
We started out with a morning at home. Bobby had come prepared and we started our day off with a few games of
‘Poo Bingo’ which is nowhere near as disgusting as it sounds …
Bobby was not the only one was prepared and I had plans for some baking on the cards …
It had taken me a while to find a recipe that I thought would be fun for Bobby. I wanted him to be able to do everything and, as mixing by hand is hard for little ones, I opted for a
Magimix recipe so he could use the food processor.
We were making gingerbread men and, whilst it took a while, which was absolutely fine with me, Bobby had a whale of a time.
He weighed out the dry ingredients … with less flour spillage than I normally make …
He sieved the flour …
He weighed out and cut up the butter …
He weighed out the sugar …
He then tipped all of the dry ingredients and the butter into the Magimix and mixed them together.
He then had a go at cracking the egg and, after fishing out a few bits of shell, he beat it up …
He measured and added the golden syrup …
… which I believe may have been his favourite ingredient …
Once I’d helped add the wet ingredients to the Magimix he pulsed it all until it turned into a nice ball of dough …
There was then a bit of kneading …
… before we put the dough in the fridge to chill for half an hour, which was just long enough for a bit of Lego building …
Once the dough was chilled we cut it in half and Bobby got cracking with the rolling pin …
He did a great job and it was soon time to start cutting out our gingerbread men (people) …
Once the first lot of dough was done all was repeated for the second half and we were ready for the oven …
After about 15 minutes we were pretty excited …
We chilled out for a bit whilst they cooled and then got on with the decorating … starting off with mum, dad and Bobby …
Bearing in mind we had already taste tested a few, which were scrummy, we made an absolute load. …
We covered our gingerbread families up and left the icing to set whilst we headed into town where we completed a few errands before stopping for lunch in our local theatre …
… where a bit of a look round was an opportunity not to be missed …
After lunch I’d got another activity on the cards and I wasn’t sure what to expect. It was an augmented reality tour called ‘We Love Tamworth’. I’d already downloaded a free app which sent us to different interesting spots around the town where we had to look through the phone camera to see all kinds of odd things.
My capturing of images wasn’t brilliant but these are some of what we found …
It was a really warm afternoon and, whilst it had been good fun and lovely to see Tamworth looking so lovely in the sunshine …
… we were all more than ready for an ice cold treat …
We had a really lovely day. It didn’t end up being as unenergetic as I’d expected but we’d done loads, not gone far, not spent much and we still had a stack of gingerbread men to enjoy 😊
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