Friday, September 28, 2012

baking with preschoolers

Last night Kiddo and I made cookies. While I was doing the dishes afterward, she did a little baking of her own.

Using the cookie dough bowl, she made "water cookies." Her recipe: First you add a lot of water. Then 1/2 cup of flour, 2 teaspoons of sugar, and a lot of salt. Then add some raspberry jam to make it pink, but that doesn't work so well. Stir it a lot, and possibly add more water.

At the end, she was surprised that it didn't solidify into some dough like substance. "I guess it will take more practice" she surmised. But, ever the optimist, she tried some.

"It tastes like beach water!"

In a great act of motherhood, when she offered me a taste, I tried some, and as I suspected, it tasted exactly like beach water.