Baking Around Corners

I have a two year old daughter named Sary she has egg and peanut allergies.  This adds to the to do list for this Domestic Goddess because I have to be ever vigilant about what she eats.  Being a mom of a baby keeping her away from these things wasn't that hard.  The biggest challenge was to keep people who ate peanut butter sandwiches for breakfast from kissing her. (Yes! She is that sensitive.)

 As she became a toddler it increased in difficulty because eggs are in all baked goods and peanuts contaminate almost all chocolate.  My little girl loves baked goods like her daddy and chocolate like her mommy.  It is easy enough to bake with Ener G Egg Repalcer on the rare occasion I baked something.  But once she turned two and started to go to cake and ice cream laden birthday parties the real challenge began after a while I realized that snack sized Hershey bars were not going to cut it and I realized that I had to bake and freeze some cupcakes.  But then Birthday season seemed to pass and we were in the clear.  So I thought.

Then one day when I picked Sary up at day care her teacher looked at me with a concerned look in her eye. then the teacher asks me "Can you bring in cupcakes for the freezer?"
Me : Yeah I guess...
Teacher:  Well uh yeah she (motioning to my little girl wrapped around my leg) cries a lot when we have birthdays.  And umm could you make her some pancakes.  She cries every time the other kids have pancakes.

PLOW! WAM-O! BOOM! Super Woman is down for the count.  It is the Working Mom Guilt Hammer right on her head.

Me: [In a little tiny voice]: Umm is there anything else that they have in the morning that she wants to eat?  I could um try to make some.

 Teacher: Oh no just the pancakes she can have them when we have waffles or french toast too.

I shuffle home feeling sad about my poor little girl who has been forced to eat cereal every time there is something with eggs in it served for breakfast.  Imagining the emotional damage I have done to this poor little girl who has a mommy that doesn't even think about how she feels when other kids get to have syrup-y yummy pancakes.

I go home sit her up to the table and give her a Hershey snack sized chocolate and a cup of tea in her flowery little espresso cup turned child's tea cup.

Domestic Goddess Solution:
That weekend I search the aisles of Wegman's for Organic Vegetarian Egg Free Pancake mix.  I find Nature's Path Buttermilk Pancake Mix. Check.  And when I made the pancakes just to be extra domestic goddess-y I put little chocolate jimmies in half the pancakes.

I also procured Funfetti Cake mix and pink Funfetti icing.  This little princess will have the most festive frozen cupcakes ever.   Go! Domestic Goddess.

Tip:
When preparing cupcakes for freezing.  Buy the aluminum tins at the store to bake them in, use the cupcake paper, but leave the cupcakes in the tin.  After frosting and decorating the cupcakes freeze for 5-10 minutes before covering the tops  first with wax paper them aluminum foil.  This allows the frosting to harden a little.  Don't forget to write your child's name on the foil before putting it over the cupcakes.