Dear God, what will Lakeland think of next?

[HuevosRancheros]

I though the specialised Stirring Spoon Holder was taking the piss a bit - what's wrong with a mug or a saucer?

But this beats it! What's wrong with a plastic bag and a rolling pin? But if you want one, hurry, they won't be stocking them again. Guess £25 was a bit much?

Bahaha, there are some things in Lakeland that I love, but lots of their stuff is getting increasingly absurd, and overpriced!

Finally. A gadget to coat all the homemade marshmallows I make. Life is complete.

Yes, and things like the fairground carousel cake mould, or the silicone farmhouse cake mould..... How often would your dc actually want that cake??

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Exactly

I don't get that at all.

I don't like marshmallows though so maybe I'm just not on the right wavelength required to desire this item.

The candy floss maker caught my eye. Surely that's a use once, consign to the back of a cupboard job.

I love marshmallows, but that gadget isn't to make marshmallows, or store marshmallows, nor is it made out of marshmallow. You could just as easily use it for fish to be fried (matzo in one bowl, breadcrumbs in the other...) or just about anything.

There is a team of people in the bowels of Lakeland HQ, fuelled by Red Bull (sipped out of jam jars with straws in their lids), who are given perfectly ordinary items, like a set of stacking bowls, and are set the task of conjuring up the most specific, the most outlandish, the most dare I say gourmet descriptions for said items.

I have the farmhouse cake mould (and the fairytale/gingerbread house one) and covet the carousel mould

So far, have used the gingerbread one 4 times, farmhouse only once (but birthdays are coming up), and have also made: castles, hello kitty, a horse shaped cake, and a fabulous race car.

We always do shaped cakes, even for non- birthday cakes

£25 for a tupperware tub and a stick

I am such a. Sucker for kitchen gadgets. NOT the easy-coat thing, I hasten to add. But I have been rather taken by the blurb - is it really easy to make marshmallows? If so, my life really will be complete

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I can understand the gingerbread house one, that seems a bit more adaptable, but the carousel and farmhouse seem quite specific.... but hey, well done for using them more than once!

Am at you doing shaped cakes for non-birthdays..... I am the opposite, the DCs have never had a shaped cake! To be fair, they are only 6 and 3, so don't yet realise such things are possible. They always want a chocolate cake with chocolate icing and chocolate buttons, don't care what it looks like, phew!

Ooh, it's half price

When I win the lottery my kitchen cupboards will purely be stocked with Lakeland stuff. I will also have a cupboard to keep their;
Carpet sweeper
Carpet shampooer
Hoover
Robot Hoover
Robot mop
Floor Steamer

Handheld versions of above

Yes,the carousel is a bit specific - probably why I am still hankering after it, rather than it sitting in my cupboard... The farmhouse one is good, we are just out of cake season - most birthdays are in the summer here, and we are on a cake/pudding break following overload at Easter....

My dc are 9, 7 and nearly 2 - the 9 year old has severe ASD and only started asking for a particular cake 2 years ago. The 2 year old doesn't count yet (he will be getting either the farmhouse or the racing car, though) so that so many different shapes have been made.

We all tend to make/decorate together as a family activity so it's nice to ring the changes and make different shapes.

Think it's a hangover from my childhood - they always choose what cake they want, and I do my best to attempt it - silicone moulds make it a LOT easier to get something resembling the right shape

Ooh, damn autocorrect - the robot hoover and mop don't need a cupboard, they sit quite happily eg under the dresser, or ina corner. Go on, you know you want to

(They are fabulous, btw. Have saved me a lot of grief over the years with noise sensitive dc)

I like those jam jar lids!

Alarm if you do find a marshmallow recipe that works, can you let me know. It needs to be corn free though and I don't have a sugar thermometer. My last attempt ended in a huge dish of really disgusting sugar stuff that got thrown away, such a waste of sugar!

I don't understand it. I didn't know making homemade marshmallows was a thing. I certainly didn't know that coating marshmallows in biscuit crumbs was a thing.
How how how in gods name did they decide that this was a something anyone needed? As op says, a placcy bag and rolling pin do the same job.
And 25 quid???

That is utterly bonkers. But its half price, so...

I remember when Lakeland was such a sensible shop. I loved it!

But now?? Spinning spaghetti fork anyone?

If you feel that Lakeland prices and objects are getting a bit pricey, I have just perused the Pampered Chef catalogue. Now either I have been half cut on the other occasions I looked at it (and decided that £35 for a stone bakeware thingy that I wasn't allowed to wash and managed to break after about 6 uses) , or inflation has hit hard, but my the prices.

The best was £6.25 for some of those klip its that you get in Ikea for a pound.

How much for that spaghetti fork? Or you could just learn to twist

This is what I mentioned earlier - I just stick my spoon in a mug, or rest it on a saucer. But hey, if you've got £8 to burn....

Ooh, I love a browse through a Lakeland catalogue, makes the world seems like a safe and orderly place.

Oh it's a marshmallow! I thought it was a big cube of feta and was a bit confused