Wednesday, February 28, 2007 ;
2:57 PM
I resumed baking again after the hol. By the way, I am so grateful to the church friends who gave me all their baking and cooking stuff. That's why I can do all these. The toaster oven, the various sizes of baking trays, the measuring cups, egg beater, everything.
Today, I tried cookies.. downloaded a recipe for Mrs Field's choc chip cookies from the internet. but i altered the recipe a bit -- less sugar, more oatmeal, less choc chips... and well, though i expected it, but secretly wished maybe won't happen, the cookies did turn out to be different in taste from the real Mrs Fields.
naive me. never follow instructions lah. trained in science, teach bio, still try to be inexact in adhering to the protocol. aiyah. i deserve it. see, the colour and consistency also differ.
it was so much less sweet such that i found it not very yummy. went overboard in cutting down the sugar i think. fortunately, my kids were still so greedy and probably cos they don;t know what's the real thing, they still gobbled down a lot of it till I had to stop them. in case they get a sore throat. too heaty, after all, even though with all those oatmeal and nuts, it is supposed to be quite a healthy snack. (Those interested can just google Mrs Fields cookies recipe and it'll appear. Supp to give you the real thing. IF you follow the steps. But oh, take note it makes 112 cookies, so you may want to adjust the ingredients, else you end up with too much... :-) I halved them.)
Kids were involved a bit too. they wanted to, so i let them. but they made me spend a lot more time cleaning up... they think they are making playdoh instead of cookies. they had more fun making the shapes. after a few trays of usual round shapes, i let them play around with moulding the dough.
Above: Titus made his name. Justus wanted shapes. And them "helping out".
Below: Kids are watching Shrek now and they like the gingerbread man. So we shaped one and Titus decorated it with some help.
Then there's J for Justus and the chinese character for Titus' name. the other dots are just for fun. i told ds1 the dots above the "feng1" (Abundance) can sort of make it become "yang2" (Sheep) and he happens to be born in the year of the sheep too.
rainbows every day, do not worry for the morrow
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