Baking

Ashlynn loves to help in the kitchen and she has started wanting to make things on her own!  I am great with it and want all my kids to know how to bake and cook!  She learned how to make Cake Cookies at Activity Days earlier this summer and asked if she could make them this week.  So we got out the recipe and I went over it with her then I went outside so she could do it all by herself!  She came outside and told me each and every step she was on.  She was doing great!!!  So I came in just when I thought the cookies should be about done to help her check them and the house was full of smoke.  I asked her how long they had been in the oven.  The timer hadn't even gone off yet.  So we looked closer at the oven and she showed me which buttons she pushed for the timer.  She had pushed the bake button instead of the timer button which turned the temperature up to like 600.  She was so upset, but I reminded her that thats how we learn and she still had enough mixture left to retry!  The second batch turned out great, and later in the week she made them again and they were wonderful.  Her brothers love that she made them cookies all week!

Ashlynn's burnt cookies

Much better the second go around