To just want to bake on my own?

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

The kids (and the husband) are all occupied in various rooms/tasks. I've exhausted all the Masterchef episodes and at a loose end.

Asked if anyone wants a board game/movie/walk etc. Shrugs and grunts from the lot of them.

Take myself off to bake a cake. Who shows up wanting to help? The eldest.

Every single thing ive baked in the last 9 years has been with or for a child. The watching, checking measurements, reminders of hot/sharp/not too vigorous on the whip. The bits of broken egg shell ive picked from sneezed on bowls of eggs.....

Just once. Just one single time that I could enjoy them all being occupied without me.

Weve finished. But it's not been quite the experience I was hoping for and of course, the second it comes to washing up - suddenly they have something better to do.

I'm tempted to say I've burned the cake and eat the fucker all myself.

Your last sentence made me smile

I know how you feel but when you feel like that, try to remember that it won't always be like this. As they get older they inevitably drift away as they find their own feet and then you'll have all the time in the world to bake solo but you might find that you miss those small hands delving into your missing bowls!

It's tough but honestly, try to embrace it.

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Mine usually appear when it's time to lick the bowl. I don't think so. If I've done everything else, it's my bowl.

Bake when they are in bed

Ahhh I love baking alone. Baking with a 4 year old... not so much

My three year old helped and I three days later am still finding flour around the house.
I adore him but baking alone is bliss

Oh OP I could have written your post. I've baked for years with dc and whilst I love baking I find baking with dc tedious. I now get up at 6am on a Saturday and make a cake. This morning I could have cried when adult dd, whilst eating a slice of said cake, told dgs just two he'd soon be baking with Gangan. Aaargh

I love baking with DD we have been baking together since she was 2 and we baked together last week now she's 21.
She never stops talking though so some times we forget some of the ingredients

@NapoleonOzmolysis

Mine usually appear when it's time to lick the bowl. I don't think so. If I've done everything else, it's my bowl.

😂

Mine are at the age where I get the mixer out and any high ingredients and they call me when its time for the oven bit. Sometimes it goes wrong. But at least I don't have to watch...

Why not just say "Oh dear child, mummy wants to bake this cake all by herself maybe next time we can make a cake together-why don't you go back to what you were doing?" There's no law saying you have to let your kids do 100% of anything with you

I've ceded baking territory to ds16 and Ds14 (started when they were 12/13). They like fruit cake - I think it's the food of the devil. They just have to get on with it. They've fucked it up a few times but they're now competent and I can keep my solo baking endeavours for chocolate based lovelinesses.

I always made cakes and biscuits with eager boys and now they do it all the time in their uni flats to impress girls.

@Blueeilidh

Bake when they are in bed

And just sit around in the afternoon twiddling my thumbs?