Baking is Not Dead: 3 simple ways to make Your Cake Rule

You can have your cake and eat it!

I always considered myself a good cook and a great baker. It's easy to mix a cake and bang in it the oven and I was motivated from an early age by the lure of sugary treats.

But recently I have discovered three basic tricks which help you create a most, moist superior cake. These tips are simple and take your cake from good to great.

Mothers Prayer for her Daughter

Already the mother of Alice and Penelope, motherhood is very much on the comedienne's mind. So now we bring you this excerpt from Tina Fey's book, Bossypants:

First, Lord: No tattoos. May neither Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches.

May she be Beautiful but not Damaged, for it's the Damage that draws the creepy soccer coach's eye, not the the Beauty.

Opening Up

A lot of people have a lot of questions about open marriage.

In order to avoid going into too much mind numbing detail, I will offer a simple analogy.

Bad behaviour and lolly bags

3D lolly bag before the unfortunate indicent

This weekend I left the lolly bag on the car roof as I strapped my daughter into her seat after a four year old party.

Every time I place something on the roof I simultaneously warn myself I'm going to forget it. Then I do. The petrol cap, a porcelain plate and cake, lunchboxes and children's clothing have all come the raw prawn these past few months.

Last week I left the remote control of a fantastic toy car on the roof, losing both the device and the car's purpose. It didn't even belong to me, I had borrowed it from my mum.