More on those cookies!
Dec. 23rd, 2003 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sierciaOn SUnday we went to a cookie making party for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
whuffle's birthday. Towards the end of the party, it was discovered that there was a whole batch of gingerbread dough that hadn't been used. Due to the unfortunate demise of their oven door, it couldn't be used, either. So, at great sacrifice to myself (heehee), I volunteered to take the dough.
We decided to bake the cookies this morning. Now, on Sunday, Widget had been a little too wired to really make cookies, and there was too much other stuff going on, and the group effort was more on decorating rather than cutting out the cookies, which was a little beyond Widget's skill level. So, all told, she didn't really do much with the cookies except eat them.
Today, I rolled out the first batch of dough on the table then called Widget in. Imagy and I stuck her in her chair, and let her have at it. She loved trying to roll out the dough, and was even getting good at it by the end. We used the cookie cutters she'd gotten as a holiday present, and a glass to get good round cookies as well. She had a lot of fun picking which shapes to use, and trying to pick up the cut cookies. She kept trying to eat the dough, but that's mostly okay.
Having a second adult around was great, we tag teamed so that she was still supervised when the batches had to come in and out of the oven. She loved eating the cookies she'd made, and I think she's excited about bringing some to share on Christmas. After readingmamawrites's post about crazy cookie baking with her two year old, I'm thinking Imagy Widget and I had a good approach to the cookie making. (Of course, it sounds like she had a good time too.)
Definitely a lot of fun, and something we should make a more regular activity around here, I think.
whuffle's birthday. Towards the end of the party, it was discovered that there was a whole batch of gingerbread dough that hadn't been used. Due to the unfortunate demise of their oven door, it couldn't be used, either. So, at great sacrifice to myself (heehee), I volunteered to take the dough. We decided to bake the cookies this morning. Now, on Sunday, Widget had been a little too wired to really make cookies, and there was too much other stuff going on, and the group effort was more on decorating rather than cutting out the cookies, which was a little beyond Widget's skill level. So, all told, she didn't really do much with the cookies except eat them.
Today, I rolled out the first batch of dough on the table then called Widget in. Imagy and I stuck her in her chair, and let her have at it. She loved trying to roll out the dough, and was even getting good at it by the end. We used the cookie cutters she'd gotten as a holiday present, and a glass to get good round cookies as well. She had a lot of fun picking which shapes to use, and trying to pick up the cut cookies. She kept trying to eat the dough, but that's mostly okay.
Having a second adult around was great, we tag teamed so that she was still supervised when the batches had to come in and out of the oven. She loved eating the cookies she'd made, and I think she's excited about bringing some to share on Christmas. After reading
mamawrites's post about crazy cookie baking with her two year old, I'm thinking Imagy Widget and I had a good approach to the cookie making. (Of course, it sounds like she had a good time too.)Definitely a lot of fun, and something we should make a more regular activity around here, I think.
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