As most of you will know, cake is very important to me – I love baking it and I love eating it. It never ceases to amaze me how so few ingredients can metamorphosise into something quite so delicious.

I love reading cookery books and trying out new recipes and, having relatively few ingredients, cake is a great thing to experiment with.  A dash of lemon juice, a teaspoon of ginger or a scoop of cocoa and you have 3 completely different tasting cales! Plus cake is generally very well received by willing taste testers so it’s lovely to get positive feedback on something you’ve made!

Cake is also a big part of Mum’s the Boss meetings, so much so that I have a sneaking suspicion that for some people cake may be the driving force behind their regular attendance!

All of which is why I now find myself the proud new owner of the word ‘cake’. For £20 I have adopted the word for a year through the Adopt a Word scheme, which raises money for the children’s communication charity I CAN.

One in ten children has a communication difficulty – almost three in every UK classroom. A difficulty with language and communication impacts on all aspects of children’s lives – making friends, reading and writing, passing exams or finding a job later in life. I CAN helps in several way:

• running specialist schools to help children with the most severe problems whose needs cannot be met in mainstream school
• giving expert advice to parents and families about what to look for and how to get help
• providing assessments for children so that their families know what support will best meet their needs
• training teachers and other childcare workers in what a communication difficulty looks like and how to best help children who struggle
• increasing awareness and understanding of the problem

So if you have something that means a lot to you, why not see if the word is available from Adopt a Word and nab it for yourself, and help a great cause at the same time.

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