Our second project was to make some homemade treats for Grandad Leigh's visit.

We had a look at a range of different recipes, and Eilir picked out the one he fancied making, which were sandwich style biscuits which featured cut out letter shapes in the top biscuits revealing a jam centre.  Eilir always loves baking and this was no different, he sang and talked to the mixture all the way through the process.  As he mixed the dough together he said things like "You can't escape this time....." to the flour, and would sing, stop and stretch, and start mixing again (and singing).

Rolling out the dough was accompanied by an improvised "roly-roly" song.  The cutting out was a more serious business, with lots of thought going into what letters and shapes he wanted to cut out.  Most were letters, including E for Eilir and G for Grandad, then lots of random ones inspired by his fridge magnets, followed by a smiley face, and a stick man.

The first one to be tested was a smiley face. Eilir was very excited after adding the jam - exclaiming "The jam comes through!  He's bleeding!"

After this initial test Eilir thought he'd like to try them with squirty cream middles too, experimenting with the effects - all very yummy.  We had to hide some away for Grandad - Daddy and brother Freddy were greedily eating them all!