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Pooka 12-22-2008 09:32 AM

Does anyone feel like Baking?
 
I'm not up to my normal holiday activities... chest cold has me incapacitated...

anyone want to come over and bake 12 batches of ginger bread cookies, 6 batches of snicker doodles, a chocolate yule log, some candied pecans and the dinner while your at it??? I want to go back to sleep.

HungLikeJesus 12-22-2008 09:36 AM

I thought you had a little elf who could help you with that.

Pooka 12-22-2008 09:49 AM

LOL... in theory.... she is 2... her help would require more work on my part than if I just did it myself...

Trilby 12-22-2008 09:58 AM

I'm baking cookies (sugar and c.c.) and ....that's about it.

What do you usually bake, Pooka?

limey 12-22-2008 11:00 AM

I really thought this was a clone thread for "Does anyone feel like bailing ..." :o

Pooka 12-22-2008 11:18 AM

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It is a real thread cleaverly disguised as a clone thread... you likey?


I bake pumpkin bread, gingerbread, gingerbread men, sugar cookies, espresso and marmalade cookies, pumpkin/ pecan and buttermilk pies, I generally also make tamales, jalapeno jelly and cheese balls.

I'm just doing the cookies this year

Pooka 12-22-2008 11:24 AM

That would be my little "helper elf"

SteveDallas 12-22-2008 11:58 AM

I'm more of a cake baker than cookies... but I haven't done any in a long time. (During her first pregnancy, homemade pound cake was one of the few things Mrs. Dallas could eat.)

footfootfoot 12-22-2008 01:27 PM

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I'm gonna do a swedish rye, a linzer torte, (we have real lingon berries), and an onion herb bread. Maybe some savory cheddar muffins. The breads are going in our new community wood fired oven.

footfootfoot 12-22-2008 01:28 PM

wow, those are shitty resizes. I'll redo them later.

glatt 12-22-2008 01:54 PM

but they are nice and small files, and you can see what's going on in them, even if they do look a little rough.

Pooka 12-22-2008 04:21 PM

Wow... not only duper yummy, but super cool Footsie...

What type of community might that be? Looks really amazing!

footfootfoot 12-22-2008 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Pooka (Post 515969)
Wow... not only duper yummy, but super cool Footsie...

What type of community might that be? Looks really amazing!

A bunch of old hippies who know the whole point of smoking dope is to INHALE. And the birthplace of "Pie a la Mode"

Actually we live in an awesome village, there is a blog about it.
It is (aptly named, no doubt) http://cambridgebuzz.blogspot.com

Pooka 12-22-2008 05:57 PM

Awesome! How very cool! I would totally love living there! Throw in a slice of cheddar on that Pie a la Mode and you've got me!

DanaC 12-22-2008 06:16 PM

Does it make me a bad person that when I look at that wonderful picture of small child with cookier cutter, part of me goes "awwww that's adorable" and another part of me thinks, "No way am i eating that gingerbread man...."

It used to take a herculean effort on my part to force down the crispie cakes, or fairy buns my darling nieces would hand me when they were little. Proud as punch they'd hand me what can only be described as mutilated biscuit creatures with suspiciously thumbprint-like icing smears, and I would try not to think about what I'd seen those chubby little hands doing ten minutes prior.

Pooka 12-22-2008 06:38 PM

lol... I know what you mean... you should see the "sugar cookies" to which she added the oatmeal chocolate chip dough and all those pretty candy flowers before I knew what she was up too... mmmm yummy and festive....

I did scrub her down pretty good, but just about every cookie has her little finger prints... she had to keep poking at them

lumberjim 12-22-2008 06:50 PM

the kids and I are baking in the morning.....we spent this morning preparing the dough for sugar cookies and toll house cookies. I'm going to whip up some peanut butter cookies tomorrow while they are decorating the sugar cookies ( i made some kick ass buttercream icing today) I'll get some pics for you if i remember.

Juniper 12-22-2008 06:52 PM

Whew - fortunately my little elf helpers actually wash their hands after messing with the dogs, after being reminded. I'm not so confident about the younger one's fingernails though...

Anyhow, we made some spritz today, for which I introduced them to the joys of the cookie press.

Their favorite ones, of course, are the ones that came out looking like cat turds with multicolored litter sprinkles.

zippyt 12-22-2008 09:14 PM

nothing like baking from scratch to make math and science fun and delicious for helper elves. If I baked for us, we would be twice as fat The secret is having someone to help you eat them besides the coworkers you exchange cookies with....We may, however may rent an elf this year........ Mzzip

lumberjim 12-23-2008 12:11 PM

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the finished product:

lumberjim 12-23-2008 12:15 PM

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i did most of the toll house cookies last night, and i did the peanut buter cookies while the kids decorated the last few sugar cookies

Trilby 12-23-2008 01:38 PM

nom nom nom! LOOKS YUMMAH!

Pooka 12-23-2008 02:49 PM

WOW!! What good little helper you have! Santa is sure to be pleased by those cookies!

Sundae 12-23-2008 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim (Post 516144)
i did most of the toll house cookies last night, and I ate the peanut butter cookies while the kids decorated the last few sugar cookies

Fixed it for ya.

I can't get over what a dark beauty Ripley is.
When are you going to start building the Indiana Jones style traps for her suitors?

busterb 12-23-2008 06:21 PM

I baked 12 small date nut breds, that's redneck for bread, in the small bunt pans. Photos later somewhere!

wolf 12-24-2008 01:40 AM

I'm hoping to get working on some chocolate chunk cookies tomorrow. One of the ambulance guys put in a special fudge request, so I'll have to negotiate with momwolf for kitchen time. There will be some leftover peanut butter chips from the PB fudge, so they might find their way into some of the chocolate chunk cookies.

If I get really into it, might do something that involves rolling and cutting out, haven't decided yet. May end up depending on whether I have the right ingredients. I don't remember seeing any molasses in the cabinet, so I may have to pass on the gingerbread. Sugar cookies are a possibility, however.

skysidhe 12-24-2008 12:03 PM

There's some beautiful cookie art there.

BrianR 01-01-2009 09:48 PM

I got the baking bug tonight
 
and made pull apart (monkey bread) cinnamon buns.

A BIG pan of them. I got carried away a bit with the dough and it nearly overflowed the bundt pan and a few drops of the sugar/molasses/honey glaze did spill out but I put down a drip pan so I didn't have to clean the oven tonight.

It was very easy and my wife now thinks I'm the world's greatest baker (I'm not but don't tell her).
I just turned it out of the pan after cooling and it looks yummy! I wish I had my camera so I could take a picture. I'll see if I can find a generic pic somewhere.

Brian


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