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.

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

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

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

What do you usually bake, Pooka?

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

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

That would be my little "helper elf"

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.)

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

the finished product:

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

nom nom nom! LOOKS YUMMAH!

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

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

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.

There's some beautiful cookie art there.

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