Kitchen

A Fun bit of Baking

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A short interlude in the holiday posts today. James has started to really enjoy his baking, and the eating that goes along with it. With Lyns being at work on Sunday, James and I decided to make some chocolate chip muffins. He is starting to get really good at weighing the ingredients and when it comes to mixing, he loves using the stand mixer. He even managed to crack an egg for the first time.

Now, the thing is, when it comes to cooking, James is the chief taste tester. This time it was checking the chocolate chips were suitable to go in the muffins. He must have had to try a dozen, purely for quality control purposes you understand, before they were allowed to go into the batter.

With the batter made, here came the messy but fun bit. He concentrated so hard to fill the muffin cases, making sure that each one was filled up to the top. As it turned out, we might have over filled them.

Ok, so not the best shaped muffins in the world, but who cares, they tasted amazing. We had made six but only four managed to sit on the side for more than a few minutes, they were super tasty whilst still warm and the chocolate all gooey mmmmm.

Micky and Friends

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So where to start? Its been almost three weeks since I last had chance to post anything on here and why is that I hear you shouting? Have you not done anything? Have you been stuck in a black hole? Simple answer is that work has gone crazy and the last thing I have felt like doing in the evening is posting anything to the blog, cue shocked gasps! We have all had lots of fun, I thought I would share with you all though is a bit of baking we did a couple of weekends ago. Lyns was at work so James and I decided to make some biscuits. Cooking I can do, baking not so much. In the end they tasted pretty good but I was outside of my comfort zone, James on the other hand approached it like a pro.

You plug in in dad and leave the rest to me

Hurry up dad, I’m ready to mix

I think Lyns must have done a fair amount of baking with James because he had the whisk out of the draw and the metal attachments plugged in before I had even got my apron on.

After he had mixed the dough, we got to the bit that James was not so keen on, the getting your hands in and kneading. Funnily enough he refused to do that, so I was called upon to roll up my sleeves and dive in. After this, I rolled the dough out and James was in his element cutting out the biscuits. Lyns had some cutters from when we went to Disney World a few years ago and we made some Micky Mouse shaped biscuits.

Also, for Lyns’ birthday, I had bought her a cutter that can be used to make all different designs of sugar icing. James had decided that today we were making ladybirds, so off we went.

A very careful kneading from James to minimise contact with hands.

I did the cutting and James did the sticking. I think they turned out pretty good and they even tasted reasonable as well. Not a bad way to spend a rainy afternoon.