I grew up baking. In fact, I believe that I (and most of my siblings) could bake a batch of cookies by scratch by the age of 7. (At least that's what we claim.) We used to triple, or maybe even quadruple our recipes to produce enough cookies for our family and my mom's babysitting kids. In recent years, my love of baking has grown. I could read cookbooks for fun, and I swear that after Lucy was born I went through what I call "reverse nesting" when Isabelle and I baked something nearly every day. Needless to say, I was also eating many of those tasty treats myself (so much for shedding the baby weight!). Afterall, Mom can have as many as she wants, as long as no one else catches her at it! Since then, we've tried to cut back on how many we make, but the kids still really enjoy baking and eating. And baking and eating at the same time. They have this habit of licking their fingers in between putting on sprinkles, which causes all the sprinkles to stick to their fingers, which means they need to lick their fingers again, then back into the sprinkles, and look! they all stuck to the fingers again, so they need to be licked again! (I know, now none of you will ever want to eat cookies at our house again!)
I've slowly learned that baking with kids means NEVER turning your back, even for a second, or you could end up with a cup of salt in your granola bars or a couple tablespoons of baking soda in your brownies or water in your cookies. The mess is always huge -- flour on every surface and more bowls and spoons than necessary dirty. However, we always love the tasty treats, and making them is almost as fun as eating them! Hopefully some day my kids will love to cook on their own and will be calling me for advice just as often as I call my mom!
Henry excited about baking and licking his sprinkle-covered fingers.
Isabelle sporting pjs while baking (No, this picture wasn't taken right away in the morning, and yes, sometimes we do leave our pjs on all day!)
3 comments:
Sara, when I bake I can't turn my back on the dough, batter, etc. or half will be gone before I get it in the oven. And yes we have licked fingers, spoons, spatulas back in the dough before it's cooked too!
getting dressed is over rated! My two are great taste testers and are awesome with the spinkles too! I can't wait to see you!!
I remember eating those granola bars with the EXTRA salt. Wow! And yet I still asked for the recipe... must not have been too bad. (o: Baking is a great way to get everyone together, isn't it? Thanks for posting this one. I loved the part about how mom can eat what she wants as long as no one catches her. That's me to a T!
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