So today I would like to set the record straight and state, "that my 12 year old daughter has always liked to cook and bake"!
As we have been going along with our baking, well mostly me because school work comes first, we have been compiling a book of baking recipes so to speak..... and the thought has come to mind that maybe we would like to make and publish a mother daughter cookbook of some sort. Of course that is a million miles down the road. Maybe we should include journaling as we go along... for posterity...because you and I know that working with a 12 year old in the close quarters of a kitchen can get a little frustrating at times... and I suppose that she will tell you that working with mothers can be frustrating as well.
I am hoping that in the end of all of this blissful baking we come away from this with more than just some extra pounds and a serious sweettooth! The whole point of this project was not only to have some quality time together, but to throw in some learning about how to run a business....of course that point is only important to me. I really haven't played that part of the plan up, because if I did our daughter probably wouldn't last in the business for more than 2 seconds!
I do have one story to tell about one night of baking that didn't turn out so well. My daughter asked if a friend of hers could stay to help us mix up some cookie dough. I said yes thinking that I would get 2 helpers that evening....but to my dismay all I got were two 12 year olds, goofing around and not paying any attention to the details, (Like I didn't know that was going to happen.....hahaha). I honestly felt like a task master cracking the whip every 5 seconds to get them to help add the necessary ingredients to one of our recipes that we always make. Now usually we mix up about 3 to 5 different types of dough at night and then the next afternoon we bake them. Everything seemed like it was mixed up and ready to go so we called it a night, stored all of the different types of dough in the fridge and called it quits for the night. The next afternoon we were baking and so far all of the cookies had turned out like they should until we got to the last dough. We had all of the cookie sheets lined up to go....popped them in the oven and I thought wow this was smooth sailing. It couldn't be that easy though. The last dough went in for 10 to 12 minutes and I had the light on in the oven so I could see their progress.....they got to about the 6th minute and I realized soemthing was very wrong....they had begun to spread out, but not in their usual manner....this time they were really flat like a pan cake and the edges had started to turn an awful crispy brown color. Now I knew that they weren't in there long enough to burn, so I opened the oven and confirmed what I could see through the glass door...the dough was missing an important ingredient and guess what that ingredient was.....it was the flour!
In the girls haste to finish mixing the last dough together, they had added more sugar instead of flour. So I learned 2 very important lessons that night after throwing out all of that dough....never let my daughter have her friends over when we are mixing up the dough and always buy or store the sugar and the flour in bags that are 2 different colors.
That night the flour and the sugar we were using were both in the blue bags that we bought them in and I am sure that when I read out the last direction to mix in the flour, the girls didn't bother to read the writing on the bags they just grabbed the closest blue bag and measured it out. So I will take the blame this time! Needless to say we sucked it up and mixed up another batch that we made sure to add the flour to and the cookies baked up just fine....crisis averted.
*Remember when baking with children patience is a virtue! I will re-read this line frequently and I will always love you my darling daughter no matter what!
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