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OK, from my last post you know we're not ready...but I just did something something that qualifies me as a potentially serious mum in the future: I cooked with Golden syrup. This is something that I associate with 'real cooks' or 'real mums'. I'm not sure if it even exists in France, the hubby didn't know of it. Before today, I didn't even know what you could do with it. It had a perenial presence, sitting on a shelf in my parent's kitchen, no doubt to be used now and again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_syrup

So what happened? We 'inherited' some golden syrup from some very good friends, H & J, who left Bangalore and couldn't take it back with them. I would never have bought any. I also had in stock the end bits of packets of weetabix (difficult to get here). You know, they're too small to go into the milk, otherwise you'll just get mush. (Some would say you only get mush anyway with Weetabix). So to clean out the cupboards, I was looking for a chocolate cereal mini-cake recipe and came across this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/whitechocolateandapr_13940.shtml
(My love affair with the bbc website is strong and I recommend their recipe finder: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/)

For bonus points the recipe was by Annabel Karmel, the babies and children cook...but I didn't really follow it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabel_Karmel I used salted butter! I didn't use a potato masher to flatten (back of a spoon will do). I used milk chocolate. I didn't use the same proportions of oats and cereal.

Whatever. I used golden syrup.