upside down pear cake

after many Friday's of eating cake baked by my babes, i though it was high time i baked them something.

some softening pears which everyone was ignoring gave me the inspiration.

one of the simplest cakes I've ever baked.

not one of the prettiest,

but one of the tastiest.

enjoy with cream or custard (we had it both).

quick and cheerful cup-cakes

after i couldn't keep a promise that i had made to my children and my neice (who is staying over), of doing something fun with them(for genuine reasons, i would never have lived it down otherwise), i had a few upside-down smiles, which i was feeling quite guilty about. i had to think of a plan to put the smiles back the right way round, and came up with this idea! it definitely did the job. soon enough, empty cakes cases had become full ones and clean sad faces had become happy chocolaty ones! mashallah