On Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, we had a lot of baking going on. The holiday weekend meant extra time on our hands, what with religious education canceled and a day off on Monday. We started with some yummy chocolate cookies covered in powdered sugar.
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Dusting the cookies |
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Great finished product |
Fresh out of the oven, they were crispy on the outside and soft inside with a delightful chocolate flavor.
We had some coconut flakes left over from some other project (maybe dyed green for grass or used as snow on a Christmas bake?). We decided to make macaroons. The internet was helpful in providing
a recipe (thanks, Martha!) with fun check-off boxes as ingredients are added and steps followed.
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Step one--mixing the mix |
Any baker with any experience will know that the caption above is a lie. Step one is always to pre-heat the oven. The only variable is the temperature. The final results were delightful.
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Light and sweet |
The final project was making brownies from scratch. Our youngest decided he wanted peanut butter brownies. We think we might have misread "teaspoon" as "tablespoon" because there was a lot of peanut butter in our finished product, especially on top. The brownies were a little dry and a little overwhelming for parents. The kids didn't seem to mind.
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Measuring out peanut butter |
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Spreading the mix |
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Putting chocolate chips on top of the peanut butter! |
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Finished product |
Some might argue from the above picture that we put too many chocolate chips on top of the brownies, but that clearly is not possible.
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