baking

Here’s the deal, I’m a pretty darn good cook. My oldest will tell you that I’m the greatest cooker in the universe so it must be true, right? RIGHT! While I’m good with a knife and a saucepan, my specialty is baking. I love to bake. Cookies, muffins, cinnamon buns, fancy desserts, bread… really anything you can put flour or chocolate in works for me!

Today I have a step by step guide to perfect baking for you. I realize most of the pictures are crappy but hey, that’s the way they worked out this time around!

1. Pull out a favourite recipe.

2. Grab a helper.

3. Gather your ingredients.

4. Put that kid to work!

5. Start mixing your ingredients and then change things up as you go along (today I replaced half the butter with applesauce to please my sister and then did one third all purpose flour, one third whole wheat flour and one third oatmeal).

6. Stop to figure out why your helper is dragging the crockpot base around (not to mention where he got it from).

7. Resume mixing, taking care not to overwork your batter.

8. Pause to change an offensive diaper.

9. Taste test chocolate before adding.

10. Sing some songs and do funny dance moves when your helper taps out early.

11. Pour into pans and bake until JUST done.

12. Let cool and then devour!

Really, it’s quite easy once you get the hang of it! If you want to keep it interesting, try employing the help of three little people.

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