Baking
The annual white elephant sale is this weekend at our church, so I decided to bake cookies and cupcakes. I had baked cookies and cupcakes often when my children were little. We lived in small towns in Arizona, Wyoming, Texas, and New Mexico where bakeries did not exist and mommy's stayed home and cooked all day. My chocolate chip cookies were pretty good, but I have had no luck baking in Florida. I decided that, since I had my oven tested and the thermostat fixed last year, I'd bake.
So, I found my Christmas Cookie book, complete with my daughter's bookmarks on cookies she had planned but never gotten around to bake.
I chose an old standby. I took the chocolate chips I had stashed in the closet (they were actually discolored from lack of light and age), found all the ingredients,(I had purchased new baking soda and a new product called Baking Sugar Light and extra eggs), read the instructions, measured correctly, and followed the instructions.
The first batch was burned beyond eating, so I changed the oven temperature from 375F to 350F and decided to watch the clock closer, from 20 minutes to fifteen.
The second batch was also burned but just crispy, so I decided to save those for home eating and start over in the morning.
This morning, I used the second bag of chocolate chips, heated the oven to 350, set the timer to 12 minutes, increased the flour by about 1/4 cup and decreased the amount of chips by about 1/2 cup. The cookies were super fantastically delicious. I wrapped them into sets of a dozen each and set them aside.
I then decided to bake another favorite, peanut butter cookies. Using the cookie cookbook, I made allowance. I kept the oven temperature to 350F and baked the cookies for 12 minutes. I placed a chocolate kiss inside each cookie.
The secret to baking in Miami appears to be that the oven needs to be at a lesser heat than in the recipe, there needs to be a slight bit more flour than in the recipe, and remember to take the cookie off the baking sheet immediately because the cookie continues to bake outside of the oven.
I also baked four dozen cupcakes using a boxed mix.
I enjoyed my day of baking. The house got really hot! It smelled great too.
So, I found my Christmas Cookie book, complete with my daughter's bookmarks on cookies she had planned but never gotten around to bake.
I chose an old standby. I took the chocolate chips I had stashed in the closet (they were actually discolored from lack of light and age), found all the ingredients,(I had purchased new baking soda and a new product called Baking Sugar Light and extra eggs), read the instructions, measured correctly, and followed the instructions.
The first batch was burned beyond eating, so I changed the oven temperature from 375F to 350F and decided to watch the clock closer, from 20 minutes to fifteen.
The second batch was also burned but just crispy, so I decided to save those for home eating and start over in the morning.
This morning, I used the second bag of chocolate chips, heated the oven to 350, set the timer to 12 minutes, increased the flour by about 1/4 cup and decreased the amount of chips by about 1/2 cup. The cookies were super fantastically delicious. I wrapped them into sets of a dozen each and set them aside.
I then decided to bake another favorite, peanut butter cookies. Using the cookie cookbook, I made allowance. I kept the oven temperature to 350F and baked the cookies for 12 minutes. I placed a chocolate kiss inside each cookie.
The secret to baking in Miami appears to be that the oven needs to be at a lesser heat than in the recipe, there needs to be a slight bit more flour than in the recipe, and remember to take the cookie off the baking sheet immediately because the cookie continues to bake outside of the oven.
I also baked four dozen cupcakes using a boxed mix.
I enjoyed my day of baking. The house got really hot! It smelled great too.
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