Baking

As mentioned yesterday, the continuing quartet had their first performance last week.  Normally I would give out Freddo Frogs as a reward, but I'm bored of that.  For my own chamber music concert recently, I baked mini cupcakes and decorated them with appropriate musical things (as well our group name).  For these girls I baked mini cupcakes and decorated them with the clefs and some musical signs.  At the end of rehearsal, I let them choose.

Girls: Oh you baked? Wow they are so cute!  And - aww, they've got a -
Viola: YAY!  You know how to do an alto clef.  I have to have that one.  Thank you!
Cello: Can I have... Can I ... ooh, can I have a G clef please?  Violin 1, you should have the f and violin 2, I think you need to take the p and - oh wow!  These are actually really yummy!
Me: Er - thanks...  You sound really surprised.
Cello: Well.  Yeah.  I mean, you made these.  And they taste good.
Me: Ye-es...  Is that really such a surprise?
Cello: Well, you see... Whenever my mum bakes, it's ... just... terrible.  I keep telling her, you need to use a bigger tin, because it all - well - it just - okay, all the baking soda separates and so it sticks to the bottom and it's just ... ergh... And then no-one wants to eat her cakes, and she's all like "Why don't you eat my cakes?" and I'm all like "Because it doesn't taste good" and then the next time she'll do exactly the same thing and then we go through whole conversation all over again and I'm, just, agh!  MUM!
Me: O...kay...
Cello: Man this icing is good!  How do you make icing, anyway?
Me: Icing sugar and water.  A whole of sugar and very little water.
Cello: Is that it?  Wow.  That sounds so simple.  Ha.  Mum always says "We don't have time for icing" but that is so not true.