What do HomeSense, Henry Holland and Walnut Cake have in common?
Red Nose Day is fast approaching (13th March 2015 to be precise) and for the second time HomeSense is a proud official partner. This year HomeSense have got together with British fashion designer Henry Holland who has designed two practical and fun limited edition aprons and tea towels for Red Nose Day.
Perfect to use for fundraising bake sales and Red Nose Day parties!
The aprons and tea towels come with the famous Orson Wells Quote …
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
And you get to choose between a plain or spotty design (both look rather cool).
They can be bought at HomeSense stores or online at TKmaxx where the apron retails at £12.99 (with at least £6.50 going to Comic relief) and the tea towel retails at £4.99 (with at least £2.50 going to Comic Relief).
So having received our aprons and tea towel it was time to Bake Something Funny …
Here comes the Walnut Cake part.
Ingredients
Children (the more the merrier), flour, sugar, margarine, eggs, ground walnuts, vanilla essence, icing sugar, egg white, cream of tartar.
Carefully weigh out all the ingredients taking care to get everything into the bowl.
Watch out or sabotage!
Carefully crack your eggs
Being careful not to drop any on to the floor!
Mix everything together and divide the cake mix between three pans.
Place in oven until golden brown and springy to the touch.
Give yourself a high five for getting this far!
Now mix the icing sugar, egg whites and creme of tartar over a pan of boiling water … concentrate as boiling water is a little scary and dangerous.
Sandwich the cake layers together with your frosting.
Use the remainder of the mix to hide the rest of the cake.
Finally add your Red Nose and your done!
Recipe followed exactly from Mary Berry’s Ultimate Cake Book (Second Edition): Over 200 Classic Recipes
We were sent the aprons and tea towels to review but decided it would be more fun to have a silly bake day.
Hope you enjoyed it
You’re much braver than I am. My heart started beating a little faster at the thought of having to try and clean up all the flour and eggs!
Bet the children thought it was brilliant!
Oh wow, you and your girls certainly threw yourselves into Comic Relief – such a scrummy cake too! I don’t envy you the clearing up you had to do afterwards!
That looks like they had amazing time! I feel sorry for you with all the cleaning up that would be needed afterwards! The cake looks yummy though and the girls did a get job!
Well it certainly looks like you all had a deal of fun – not sure I’d be too keen on the tidying up, but great for the kids. And they managed to produce a rather splendid cake.
OMG that must have taken HOURS to clear away – love the photos, it looks as if they had so much fun!
The kids look liked they enjoyed making the cake!
I have to say it looked fab in the end, good luck clearing up the mess 🙂
Haha what a wonderfully messy time to make a delicious looking cake – can I have some! x
Fabulous photos and I love those aprons (great Oscar Wilde quote).
That looks like great fun, but I think I wouldn’t want the clearing up. This you deserved a slice of cake just for the photo fun!
Oh to have those messy times back again in my life – looks like great fun. HomeSense/HenryHolland/RedNoseDay and Cake = the perfect recipe.
Totally adore this, the picks of your beautiful girls are amazing
This looks lots of fun , you only have to look on the girls faces to see that. Lovely post
Ahh fantastic! And the cake looks amazing too! xxx
aw wow i love this post , looks like they all had a fantastic time , great cause too x
Oh yum, that cake looks amazing!!!
I hope you made them clear up afterwards, you are far braver and kinder than me. 😀
I love it! The messier the better! They had fun, clearly 😉
What a fantastic post and those photos are brilliant, though I don’t envy you have lean it up x
I just love this. How funny!!
aww what a great idea and way to raise money for comic relief some of those cakes look fab!
LOVE this post – so much fun and yet the end result still looks beautiful! Sounds delicious too 🙂
Goodness! That bake day looks amazing fun. Wish there was someone to clean up afterwards though 🙂
OMG I bet you are still finding flour in crevices now – looks like you had a fab time and the cake looks yummy too
I LOVE your photos! Looks like you had so much fun. Don’t envy you with the cleaning though!
Absolutely love the slogan aprons but not nearly as much as those photos! Such fun!!
Oh wow, this looks lovely hun.
I bet you had fun cleaning up all that mess – At least the girls had fun 🙂 Love the fun bits they have on offer.
Thanks for sharing funny
Charlotte x
Should I be jealous that your children can do something I can’t? It looks as though they had so much fun!
aww look at your little helpers! Love this post, they look like they had brilliant fun and for such a great cause! x