That book was one of Reed's favorites.
Cookie Monster
Cookie eater
Mixes batter
With his beater
Now we have two very interested bakers on our hands. Both kids are only interested in baking or making desserts of any kind. Reed most frequently wants to make cookies, usually chocolate chip. One recent weekend, Amy and her pal Morgan had made cupcakes and used up all my baking butter for the frosting. But Reed wanted to make chocolate chip cookies. So he searched online for a recipe that didn't use butter, and went for it. He was successful, but having cookies that used a cup of oil in the recipe only reconfirmed why the Nestle Tollhouse (read: recipe with butter) is the best.
Amy loves to make cupcakes, often finding recipes online. Yesterday she found a recipe for baked donuts and she made those for us this morning - they turned out great! Her fifth grade science project is even baking related - she's going to test the differences in how cookies come out if they're baked with softened butter vs. melted butter.
Reed is taking what used to be called "Home Economics" this semester...it's now called "Family and Consumer Science." He brought home a recipe for cookie dough dip which we tried out at the river last weekend - it was dee-lish! That one will go in the next family cookbook, for sure.
With any luck, perhaps one day soon they'll both be interested in cooking too, and I can hand off some of my duties to them! Fingers crossed!
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