Who Stole the Cookie?

It was a rare gift that I was home in the afternoon when the twins woke from their naps. I'd already decided that I wanted to bake with them. We've played with dough before and pretended to bake. But this time I decided, they were old enough to do it for real. It wouldn't be their first time. They've brought home evidence of baking from school so the concept was not alien to them.

My biggest struggle was preventing them from eating the batter (i.e. cookie dough). The word "Salmonella" kept resounding in my head! And stupid me decided that putting in bakeable M&Ms would be a great idea. Yes, it was, for the twins because they spent a great amount of time digging the M&Ms out from the batter to eat.

Eventually, we got some nice looking cookies, with the help of the cookie cutter moulds that we'd bought a long time ago for the twins to play with, with their dough. All that previous "training" helped because they were quite adept at banging the mould hard into the batter and then ordering me to "cut!" the cookie shape out.

















Jordan hard at work, trying to pull out M&Ms from her batter


















The end product before we put it in the oven.





And of course, here is a video of Evan (who didn't appear in any of the photographs because he kept ducking his head) whining because he wanted more batter and I'd taken it all away.



All in, a great lot of fun, it occupied them for a full hour and Packrat and them had yummy cookies to dunk into milk. Of course, I didn't eat them since I'd seen the giant slab of butter that went into the batter. Unfortunately, I have no photographs of the end product because it was just too risky taking photos of the cookies. My little sniffer dogs would have hunted me down even if they were at the other end of the house had I even opened the cookie jar and photographed them. And I wasn't going to let it spoil their dinner.

They did have it for breakfast and tea for two consecutive days.


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