Showing posts with label baking with nieces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baking with nieces. Show all posts

Friday, October 17, 2014

{Our time on Lake Michigan} ~ Chocolate Chip Cookies


First, an easy GF brownie from this mix.
These brownies were quite enjoyed by many!



About 5 of the nieces and nephews made
my now near famous chocolate chip cookies
that I have made for Pascha for many years.
I always get asked for the recipe.
I was thinking about this recipe
during our vacation week and realized 
that one of the tricks of my recipe,
since it is from a standard cookbook,
is that I merely role the cookies in my hand,
they even have ridges where my fingers were;
I do not make them uniform, or into small balls or
moreover and most importantly, 
I don't smooth them into a flat cookie before baking.
I think that mine are made with lots of vertical width to them,
as it were, is why they are so good;
mine are not dried out but a more almost moist butter rich cookie.
Everyone that has had them loves them.
It was really fun to bake with the munchkins! 
I had a nephew, D., ask me the first day if he could make
these cookies with acorns he found, opened and chopped
the nutmeat part from.
So we did, making sure no shells were in with them,
and it was really good; had a hard to describe
wonderful savory taste, like a memory of salt with just the 
right amount of sweetness.

Friday, January 03, 2014

The baking of cookies and cakes with lovely young ladies

Mr. Husband's family
manages to pack in a lot of special things
in a Christmas week.
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One that was a special joy to my heart
was baking cake and cookies with various nieces.
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We baked St. Lucia cookies
but I failed to get pictures of them.
We gave them out after reading this book to them.

I ad-libbed it a small bit as
I was telling the story to God-loving protestants...
I am already hoping to do a new story with them on
St. Boniface at a future DV Christmas!  :)
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Two of my younger nieces came walking into
my cabin as my eldest niece was baking a cake.
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They said they were here to bake a cake with me! :)
Melted my heart right there, I tell you!


I had them bake GF chocolate chip cookies from a mix.
They loved helping clean up eatting the batter in bowl! :)

The cookies were a real hit! 
 
The cake was lovely too!
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It was a really special time!