| December 18, 2001 (I think) |
| How to bake 1. Prepare ingredients, this seems to involve lots of sugar and heavy cream. 2. Turn stero on, LOUD. Sing along, Amiee Mann and Suzanne Vega lend themselves very well to Christmas baking.. And you've never really lived until you've danced around covered in flour singing, or screaming along with "I Should Have Known" 3. Follow instructions for receipe as myuch as you want to. It's really not at all nessacary to use seperate bowls for your dry ingredients, just adds up to more dishes to wash at the end. 4. Chase down escapeing cats and threaten to sell to them to the gypsies. 5. Roll truffles in toppings (nuts, powdered sugar and sprinkles) 6. Dip shortbread teacakes in powdered sugar and remind self to let next batch cool a little bit more before trying to pick up cookies. 7. Bake 2 more sheets of shortbread. Prepare base of Almond Roca cookie bars. 8. Powder more shortbread, use oven mitt to lip synch to song, despite not having yet consumed any sugar or caffine (except inhalation) 9. Make caramal, pour on top of cookie bar base. 10. Check to see if mail has come. 11. Package truffles and shortbread. 12. Clean kitchen. Change into clothing that is not covered in flour and powdered sugar. Observe that you look like a crackhead. 13. Pour toffe onto hot cookie bars. 14. Say to self, "Dear God, this is enough sugar to drop an army of diabetics." I've made enough cookies for a small town in Romania the last 2 days. And all variety of cookies too, chocolate chip, shortbread, truffles (technically a candy but you get the point), and almond roca bars. Tomorrow I get to make gingesnaps and peanut butter kisses. I watched Heathers this afternoon. It is a cool movie but theres' no way it would ever be greenlighted by a studio today, see the 80's really were more permissive. Plus it's fun to laugh at the clothing. Gotta go check the mail again. Bye. |