Back from the brink...

It has been a quiet time on Lachie's Allergy Cookbook, primarily because Lachie hasn't needed much cooking. The wee chap has been poorly for a long time now, or that is how it feels to me! His third ear infection since Christmas was treated with a double dose of Erythromycin which gave him awful nappy rash and made him sick. He then picked up a horrible gastric bug which lasted another 5 days (and which he kindly passed on to his big brother), and that was followed by another 7 days with no appetite and much sleepiness. It is a very very sad time when Lachie cannot be tempted by crumble or cake and when he sits in his buggy just holding a biscuit because he doesn't have the appetite to eat it.

Anyway, this weekend he seems to have turned a corner and is back to three meals a day. This morning at the swimming pool his little trunks, usually skin tight, were all baggy and he spent most of the session saying 'Hungry! Hungry!' So it is official, Lachie is back from the brink.

Iced Chocolate Fairy Cakes

This is a recycled recipe as the mixture is the same as for the Snowflake Chocolate Cake, but in celebration of Lachie's return to normal life I made him some Chocolate Fairy Cakes. Half the Snowflake Chocolate Cake mixture will make 12 fairy cakes and I bake them for 20 minutes. When they were cool I iced them with simple water and icing sugar white icing and decorated with chocolate sprinkles - multicoloured hundreds and thousands contain gluten! So chocolate sprinkles it must be. Lachie was very pleased with them and after his first bite said... 'Mmmm'.

Welcome back Lachie!