Pinkolicious Morning Tea

If I posted about the week I just had, you wouldn't believe it.

Its one of those times when you think "wow, how much has changed in the last 24 hours" and it takes you a while to get your head around it all.

Change is constant.

Here is a little pic from our morning tea today. Miss P retired today. Imagine that?! Knowing you will never work a day in your life again! And Miss Bec goes on maternity leave (for the second time) so we hosted a morning tea with all things pink. I had no physical or emotional energy to bake, so I brought in the strawberry milks. They were a hit, everyone loves playing kids again.

Our Pinkolicious Morning Tea brightened a doom like work week.

Home Baked Morning Tea

Today at the office we held a Home Baked Morning Tea. I was SO impressed with the dedication of the team.

The requirement was that you MUST bring something which you lovingly prepared in your kitchen. It just so happened to be E's birthday and she tries to keep things gluten free so a few of us included gluten free for her.

My boss told me a few weeks ago that I can take full credit for the baking enthusiasm our team now has as some of the girls had never baked anything from scratch EVER and now all of them bake! She also said that the day I said to her "Do you have flour, sugar, butter and eggs? Then why would you bake something out of the packet?" was what changed her from thinking the height of baking sophistication was adding choc chips to a packet mix, to now making all of her daughter's birthday cakes, cupcakes for other people's parties and today the most beautiful gluten free brownies!

She almost made me cry! How cool to think that between supporting my children to bake and encouraging fellow workers I am potentially changing a culture and making a mark on the future of baking for these families.  Too soppy? Ok, lets move on... Following is some of what we consumed.

Cupcakes (of course)

Chocolate Brownies

Gluten free Chocolate Brownies (very good!)

Gingerbread men

Sausage rolls

Gluten free melting moments (very good!)

Gluten free ricey slice

Chocolate cookie and cream fridge cake (so reminds me of my grandma)

Fudge

Banana cake with caramel icing (I have had two slabs already)

If you would like any recipes let me know and I will grab them off the girls. I can confirm I was extremely impressed with the gluten free goods and can not taste the difference between normal flour and gluten free flour. Yum!