Night School

I love when unexpected "school" activities pop up during non-school hours.

Tyson worked overnight and the girls wanted a relaxed family movie night.  Eden had learned a little while ago about King Alfred the Great of Britain during the Middle Ages.  There was a story that has been passed down (that may or may not be true) about this king hiding out in the woods and acting as a help to a lady there while secretly figuring out how to deal with invading enemies.  The story goes that he was pondering about how to defeat his enemies and became so distracted that he burned the cakes that he was supposed to be watching in the oven.  The woman scolded him.  She had no idea that she had in fact, scolded the king.

There was a recipe for "Alfred Cakes" just for a fun activity.

We didn't have the ingredients at the time.

But Eden decided that for our late night activity, she wanted to watch Brave (because there are a lot of little historical things in the movie that we've been learning about as well as a "cake" that Merida feeds her mom that turns her into a bear).

So, we made "Alfred Cakes"....watching them carefully, so they wouldn't burn them like the king did.  This is probably the first time I had Eden do MOST of the baking.  She measured all the ingredients (Leila did a few) and mixed it together.  It was pretty sticky dough, so I split them into pieces and helped them get it onto the baking sheet.

They made sure to take their first bite of Alfred Cake at the same time Merida's mom, the queen, took her first bite of Merida's cake.  They said the cakes tasted like scones...in a good way.

It is always nice and mix school with fun.
And to mix up a batch of cakes for dessert.