Anchor Butter: child aged 4-11? Bakers needed to get creative with their children - £300 to be won for feedback NOW CLOSED

[AnnMumsnet]

Anchor has asked us to find 250 Mumsnetters with a child aged approx 4 to 11, to get baking with their children using Anchor butter. Selected testers will be send an exclusive Anchor baking kit – containing a coupon for 250g of Anchor butter, an apron, wooden spoon and bowl to help get you started.

Here's what Anchor says: "We’d love to see what MNers can create with our rich and creamy block butter. We know it's perfect for all types of tasty bakes, whether it's making the pastry for your homemade chicken pie, or millionaires shortbread for that weekend treat with the kids. At Anchor we've been making block butter for over 125 years, to bring bakers high quality, rich and creamy butter and we’d love to know what think of it"

Plenty of recipe ideas here – including delicious ginger biscuits or does anyone fancy Cheese Scones for a snack?

MN recipes here – including yummy banana cakes from MNer forkhandles and who could resist Marslady's Lemon Drizzle Cake!

This product test is open to all UK Mumsnetters with at least one child aged around 4 to 11 years old.

Testers will be asked to bake some of your family’s favourite bakes or to try something new with their children between 13-26th April. You will be asked to leave your feedback on a feedback thread on Mumsnet and to also complete a short survey about your views of Anchor butter. Please only sign up if you are available during this time period. We’d also love to see photos on the feedback thread of your creations and ‘action’ shots of the preparation!

We are looking for some testers who would be willing to make a video of the experience – please indicate in the sign up survey if you would like to do this. Video testers will all be sent an additional £50 voucher for John Lewis as a token of thanks. Please note the videos will be edited and will then be featured on Mumsnet, on the Anchor website and on social media.

If you would be interested in signing up – please add your details here and we will be in touch with selected testers soon.

All who take part and who add feedback as required will be entered into a prize draw where one tester will win a £300 John Lewis voucher.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

[MummyBtothree]

Did your kits come via Royal Mail or courier?, I haven't got mine yet.

[starlight36]

Ours just arrived by courier. Very pleased with our non wooden spoon as it can go through the dishwasher after DD has finished 'washing' it!

[5madthings]

Courier.

I like that the spoon is flexible like a spatula.

We are planning on making unicorn poop biscuits but will also look at the anchor link for recipes.

[ouryve]

Ah. That's be what the card from the courier based miles away that I've never heard of is. Been out with the boys all day.

[MummyBtothree]

Bet mine will no doubt arrive tomorrow while we are out for the day

[Uzma01]

I think the courier attempted delivery today - having to get it redelivered as I was out, looking forward to getting some more baking done with the kids.

[myotherusernameiswittyandgreat]

Mine has come today. I'm looking forward to doing some baking. No doubt I'll be the one cleaning up the mess afterwards as long as I get to lick to spoon

[cornflakegirl]

Hmm... got a card from the courier today, we have to rearrange delivery for another day between 8 and 4, no option to eg have it left with a neighbour. Why does a package worth a few quid need a signature?

[countingdown]

My set arrived yesterday, thank you. Will get baking next week.

[PeterParkerSays]

Just picked our set up from the depot, likes others up thread the courier tried to drop it off yesterday when DH was out.

Here's hoping we can get some baking done this weekend, DS is back at school on Monday. I was hoping this would arrive a little earlier in the holidays but hey ho. Nice apron though - I like how it's wipe clean.

[meerschweinchen]

Our set arrived yesterday. Ds was very pleased with it! The only thing I'm a bit puzzled about was that there was no voucher for the butter! I thought that was the whole point really, lovely as it is for ds to have his own baking stuff - or have I got it wrong?

[JennyWreny]

I've collected our kit from the depot. Just need to decide what to bake now!

meerschweinchen The voucher was in our pack. It's a big yellow voucher (about the size of a pack of butter).

[meerschweinchen]

Ah thanks Jenny I checked carefully, but it must just have been missed out of ours then.

[Theimpossiblegirl]

I was worrying that I hadn't managed to bake yet, but thankfully we have 2 weeks. Phew! :)

[iklboo]

Had to rearrange delivery of ours for Thursday but I'm off then until Monday so can get some baking done with the little fella.

[JennyWreny]

Baking cheese straws at the moment! We had to decant the mixture into a bigger bowl though as it was spilling over the sides!

[AnneOfCleavage]

meerschweinchen to be fair the voucher was stuck almost to the side of the box and hidden by all the plastic paper stuff so I also thought it had been omitted but checked again and there it was - could it have caught under the cardboard flap?

MumsnetHQ When and where can we leave feedback as have already done baking with DD and am away from Wed eve to Sunday. Sent a PM to AnnMumsnet but auto response said you may not get the message for a while because of shiftwork between you all.

[Uzma01]

I collected our's from the depot this morning instead of waiting for redelivered tomorrow. Went to Morissons afterwards and they had £2 for 2 packs for butter (normally at £1.70 each.)

Millie's cookies here we come!

[ouryve]

Well, I rearranged my delivery for today, since there were no school runs so I could stay in. No bleeding sign of it. I've spent the last day of the holidays cooped up indoors for nothing.

And the depot is miles away. In another county and not on the way to anywhere for us. I would lose half a day and get little change from a tenner if I attempted to retrieve it by bus.

[Guineafoul]

We have been chosen for this, but have not received the voucher yet. Hoping the attempted delivery card I have is for this.

[ouryve]

I'm a bit annoyed about this now. No attempt has been made to re-deliver my parcel. I've put my details in the tracker and it both says it was delivered on Friday and is held at the depot, as of yesterday. The card says they only keep stuff for 3 days before sending it back. I can't re-arrange delivery online, because it won't let me, so I called the depot and got an answerphone. I left a shirty message saying I want my parcel delivered to me.

Of all the useless, incompetent delivery companies out there, this one really takes the biscuit. I'm suspecting I won't see hide nor hair of my package.

[AnnMumsnet]

@ouryve

I'm a bit annoyed about this now. No attempt has been made to re-deliver my parcel. I've put my details in the tracker and it both says it was delivered on Friday and is held at the depot, as of yesterday. The card says they only keep stuff for 3 days before sending it back. I can't re-arrange delivery online, because it won't let me, so I called the depot and got an answerphone. I left a shirty message saying I want my parcel delivered to me.

Of all the useless, incompetent delivery companies out there, this one really takes the biscuit. I'm suspecting I won't see hide nor hair of my package.

gah - so sorry about this...let me know if there's anything you think I can do?

[ouryve]

Thanks Ann. I'm not sure there is, to be honest. They'll probably just send it all back. And DS1 has decided to ban all Anchor products from our house, now. (This is a boy who knows how to bear a grudge!)

[ouryve]

I finally have my bits and pieces!

[AnnMumsnet]

yay!