Ok so there are a few things I can not do and one of those things just so happens to be baking.... yes, something as simple as baking absolutely destroys me for some reason and the end result is never that good. But little miss has been growing rapidly of late wanting to do more and more things on her ownsome and one of those things included baking cookies!
So, seeing I am such a crap baker and little miss wanted to learn I decided to opt for one of those simple 3 step cooking boxes you can get from the supermarket which seemed really easy and I let little miss at it. We're still learning to read so there was a little bit of help from dad.
The first step was to weigh up 180g of butter which little miss was super excited to get the scales out and weigh up all her butter. She actually did really well cutting and adding until the scales hit just over 180gs but that was good enough.
The next step was to mix our butter into our flour mix with one large egg. At this stage I thought that this was never going to work, did it need more moisture? The recipe also called for the use of a spoon to stir through but as the butter was still a little cold it didn't work out to well so we got down and dirty with our hands!
I should point out that I didn't get my hands dirty I just let little miss lead the way as this was her baking day.
Once done it was time to make out cookies and this is where hindsight comes into play as the instructions made no mention of what thickness they should be. So we made these thin shaped cookies. Little miss got a little to excited and started to eat the batter before it was cooked!
Now it was time to lay cookies onto baking trays and decorate them with some chocolate smarties. Up until this point we were steaming ahead but little miss opted for a one for me one for you approach and almost got her fill on smarties alone!
As we prepares to place the cookies into the oven there was no temperature mentioned so I preheated to 200 degrees celcius and baked at 180 instructing miss that they needed 15 minutes and told her when the clock would be 15 minutes.
It wasn't long until she ran in excited for her cookies!
Unfortunately the cookies burned :( it turned out that we shouldn't have flattened them as they melted and become larger rounder cookies. Argh! I buggered the baking.
We were able to salvage most of them and little miss ate them with a smile reassuring me that we will do better next time.
I guess dad stuffs it up at times!
