Thanks to my friend “allotment girl” who lent me the book, we’ve discovered Jamie Olivers’ ice cream “smush-ins” . I’d promised R a treat and she’d asked for an ice-cream. I was wondering how I was going to match the excitement of all those holiday ice-creams she’d got used to and this certainly did the trick.

What you (and / or your little ones) do is, get a couple of scoops of ice-cream and mush or smush into it, any lovely stuff that you fancy or have lurking in your cupboards. We bunged in banana, sultanas, sprinkles, some Winnie the Pooh chocolate coins left over from easter and mamaluke’s gorgeous strawberry cordial but the possibilities are endless. The idea is so, so simple that you wonder why any editor would’ve allowed it into a recipe book. Thing is, it turned into such an event that I understood why it was in the book – to create a buzz and excitement around mixing, bashing and smushing a bowl of ingredients. And then of course, there’s the eating. Yummm.