No Julian Child.

Little Chef Julian's story had such promise. How cool would it be if a five-year-old really could design delicious and inventive recipes? Alas, it was a little too good to be true.

To his credit, Jeremy tried to warn me that anything would taste 'yummy yummy' to a five-year-old tongue given enough powdered sugar was sprinkled on top. But, he just made it look so good.

The proportions of the recipe demonstrated by Julian did not match the recipe that was flashed up on the screen at the very end of the show (perhaps this was the first sign of trouble). We opted to use the written recipe given that Julian didn't always give concrete amounts. Both recipes were conspicuously missing eggs.

After mixing all the ingredients our dough didn't look much like dough. It was runny and sticky, despite the fact that we'd put in tons of flour. After making a gooey mess, we had to abandon rolling the dough out and just plopped it all onto a greased cookie sheet. Fifteen minutes later a cakey blob emerged from the oven which tasted basically like flour with a hint of cinnamon. No sweetness or citrus flavor, even though it contained the juice of eight clementines.

I did enjoy myself though! Going in I had no real expectations, just a curiosity to satisfy. The resultant blob caused me to laugh uncontrollably (sorry Jeremy). I thought I'd update you all, I don't want anyone else wasting their clementines.