Eyeball Blood

The boys decided that was the exact colour of red on these cakes for the party. They were lovingly baked by Morag, then enthusiastically and colourfully decorated by her young helpers.

"See that one?" asked my nephew Jack, pointing at a cake adorned with four blue smarties, "that's the one that's going to make me hyper." He said it with real relish!

And then, after all the preparation, hordes of fizzed-up four-year-olds attacked the party food like a bunch of ... well, fizzed-up four-your-olds. A splendidly piratical party!