the chocolate teddy bear recipe.

My sister, Kate was busy at home one day as a mother of two young children often is. When here little 4 year old daughter, Charlotte called out to her.
'Mummy, what is in biscuits'?
Kate answered, remembering the few ingredients from the last time they had baked biscuits together.
'Butter, sugar, eggs, cocoa and flour, Charlotte.' Returning hurriedly back to her house jobs & thinking nothing of her daughter's recipe question.
Kate returned to check on Charlotte who had been busy drawing. But instead found her in the kitchen with flour and cocoa dusted all over the kitchen floor and bench
'Oh know, what a mess!', Kate thought to herself looking around bewildered.
At the centre bench of the large family kitchen a tiny plastic chair had been pushed up against the bench with Charlotte standing on top of the chair, tall and proud. Her tiny hands inside the mixing bowl, mixing ingredients. Before Kate could remark, Charlotte opened her little mouth and exclaimed.
'Mummy look at my recipe I have made'.
With those few little words Kate's worry of mess dissolved. Kate peered inside Charlotte's mixing bowl. There inside were chunks of butter surrounded by sugar, cocoa, flour and eggs. All of which Charlotte had sourced from the cupboards and fridge on her own.
Kate was amazed that her little girl could remember, write and then find the exact ingredients she had mentioned briefly to her earlier.
Kate then helped Charlotte melt the bits of butter and added them to the mixture. Charlotte decided the mixture still wasn't correct and announced that:
'I think we should add some milk, Mummy'.
So together they added some milk to the mixture. Poured the mixture evenly into the tiny teddy moulds Charlotte's Aunt Ame had given her and baked her first recipe.
They were so delicious Charlotte wanted to send one to Aunt Ame who lives interstate, but mummy loved them too much to give away.

If you look close enough at the image above you can almost read the first recipe my 4 year old niece, Charlotte wrote and tested all by herself.


It reads:

- butter

- sugar
- eggs
- cocoa
- flour
plus some milk to combine!

love aunt ame x