Veronica Crook

A Christmas recipe from Jacob Rees-Mogg’s nanny

Each Christmas, The Spectator invites a well-known Westminster personality to contribute a special recipe. This year, we are delighted to offer a delicious recipe from Veronica Crook, otherwise known as the Rees-Mogg family nanny. Enjoy!

Every parent (and nanny) knows that Christmas day is both the most exciting day of the year for little ones, but also one of the most boring. Having leapt out of bed long before a winter dawn, children are waning by lunch, dropping by the time of the Queen’s Speech and fractious long before bed time. Not only do fairy cakes distract them but provide a little burst of energy to keep everyone happy.

In my day, cupcakes were called fairy cakes. The name may have changed but my cakes have not, and nor has children’s (and grown ups’) love for them. I remember making them at the age of about ten and entering my efforts into our local British Legion Flower Show.

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