Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen: Birthday Cake for Hannah

This week the older two girls and I had our time in the kitchen while Hannah was sleeping. We wanted to surprise her with her birthday cake. Nothing too fancy this time. Just a boxed cake doctored up a bit daddy style. A couple of weeks ago daddy tried adding marshmallows and chocolate chips to a chocolate cake. We really liked it, so I wanted to see how it would taste with a yellow cake. I also wanted to see if ALL the chocolate chips settle at the bottom or would we get something that resembled chocolate chip loaf.

Nothing fancy here. Just follow the instructions on the box of cake mix, with the addition of some marshmallows and chocolate chips.

Yes, Tabitha read the instructions for us.

Adding the cake mix.

Adding the water.

Adding the oil

Mixing

mixing

Adding half a bag of chocolate chips

Several handfuls of marshmallows. 

Pouring it into the prepared cake pan.

Just as an FYI, it took 10 extra minutes to cook because of the marshmallows.

Frosting with Cool Whip

Peeking little angel

I made a special dinner-lasagna

I wrote the words with chocolate syrup

Got to have a lick!

And just to show you, the chocolate chips did ALL settle to the bottom. 

Any clue how I would get it to stay mixed throughout????

Do you have your children help you in the kitchen?  What lessons do they learn? Do you have any kid friendly recipes to share?

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