Well… My little Florence has her very last day at nursery tomorrow and now we have the summer holidays to look forward to before big school comes up in September! I can’t believe it, where does the time go… But I waffled on about that a couple of weeks ago so I’ll try not to get teary again today… I’ll save it for the first week of term!
We are super thrilled that when she goes up one of her nursery teachers is going into reception as well so it won’t feel so different I hope! We have loved going to this nursery because the teachers are fab, all of them, we’re pleased not to be saying goodbye permanently.
I bought her main teacher and her support teacher a bottle of wine and some chocolates to say thank you but we wanted to show our appreciation to the whole team before we broke up so we decided we would make them some Nutella cake pops as little gifts.
Making Nutella Cake Pops!
The Recipe:
2 eggs, 4oz Caster Sugar, 4oz slightly salted butter, 4oz self raising flour, 2tbsp Nutella, 2tbsp cocoa powder.
Method:
Cream the sugar with the butter, add the eggs and when fluffy and light the Nutella followed by the cocoa powder. When incorporated add the flour slowly before beating until fluffy.
Cook in a cake pop maker. I used the Sweet Treats Cake Pop Maker from Lakeland which Jimmy had given to him as a birthday gift. It’s very easy to use and comes with lots of recipes (not this one, this is my own) for different cake pops as well as one for mini doughnuts. It wipes clean very easily after cooking the cakes in about 4 minutes and is a brilliant addition to the kitchen making cake pops (I usually find them very hard to make) easy peasy!
I then decorated them using Wilton Candy Melts (on offer at £2.99), metalic hundreds and thousands, again from Lakeland and chocolate crispy bits from Tesco. To finish I bagged them up using the cake pop bags from Lakeland which are £1.89 at Lakeland and come with gorgeous ribbons to tie around them!
To display them I bought the Jane Asher cake pop stand from Poundland which of course is just a pound! It even comes with 12 sticks! It’s perfect, comes in a range of colours and I have bought it lots of times before. It is absolutely excellent value for money. If you’ve ever tried to make cake pops then you will know that having a stand is imperative! Can’t go wrong with this one!
The cake pops looked great, cost a snip and meant we got to give one to each member of staff as a thank you for a lovely term!
I bought everything I have spoken about in this post.
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