Yay, it's Friday. Tomorrow is Halloween. Christopher looks so cool in his Master Chief costume. No I can't take a picture because the camera apparently got stolen shortly after the video camera. I hope my stepdaughter got half decent money for them at least. Actually, I could probably take a picture on my crack-berry. I'll try that tomorrow.
Christopher had a Halloween party at school today. We baked a milk chocolate cake with orange flavoured frosting. He helped me decorate it and it turned out actually pretty good considering an 8 year old did half of it. He was very intent when I showed him how to use the pastry bag. He messed up the first couple of inches, scraped the icing off and started again and he did really really well. So it looked like a jack-o-lantern. It had orange icing with green sugar sprinkles for the stem, a chocolate sprinkle mouth and yellow eyes and nose with two blue sour candies for the pupils. He said the kids loved it and since 22 kids at a cake big enough for 45 people I guess it was pretty good. I got my cake board back with some crumbs and a smear of icing.
Obviously since it's a small country school, most of the kids remain in the same cIass with each other right through to high school.All the parents of Christophers cIassmates know that I am a chef. It was brought up at the first parent meeting for his room that if there were no objections I would do all the baking for cIass parties, but in exchange I was not expected to contribute to any purchased candy or presents for the room. It works out really well that way.
Tonight Christopher and I are going to make sponge toffee. I usually make two big pans. One pan will be just plain sponge toffee and the other will be chocolate covered sponge toffee. It keeps really well and both of my guys really like it. While the sponge toffee is cooling I am going to make some berry jellies. Those are a gift for Christopher's bus driver. It is her Birthday on November the 3rd. Christopher gave everyone on the bus a jelly last year and his bus driver still asks all the time if I am going to make more. I will make 2lbs so that we have some here as well.
Chris has gone to Brantford to see his friend Dan, so looks like I've got the night off. Think I might throw a game in my 360 in a bit and see if I can get XBL to work for me. If you see me on and you want to play send me a message K?
Have a great night everybody. Sean I want pictures of your gorilla suit.