More baking!

Yes, another post about food. There isn't a whole lot else to write about in winter. Besides, life is so much happier with an oven.  It really is.  I've already posted pictures of my scones, but I've made quite a few other things since that first batch.

 

Chocolate chip cookies~ They weren't perfect, but I think my brown sugar mixture was just a bit off. They were still quite good, and I'll be able to fix it for next time.

(Please ignore the derp cookie that's sitting front and center. That was the heel of the roll, so it was doomed from the start. The other side of it looked nice, though.)

These cookies were SO. MUCH. FREAKING. WORK. A coworker and I stayed up until 4am on a Thursday night and 2am the following night so we could make cookies for our students, who had to come in for Saturday classes on Valentine's Day. We thought it would be cute to make heart-shaped sugar cookies.  My coworker found a video and recipe for sugar cookies with shapes in the middle and sprinkles on the outside, so we decided to try to make them. It looked easy enough.

NO.

It was easy to do, but it took an eternity. Thursday night we made four rolls of what were basically slice-and-bake sugar cookies with sprinkles on the outside. Like I said, we were up until 4am...and we were finished mixing the dough at, like, 11pm. 

Eventually we gave up and put the remaining dough back in the fridge for Friday night, when we would do most of the baking. We decided to just roll out the rest of the dough and cut heart shapes out of it instead of trying to make fancy cookies with heart shapes in the middle. 

Grand cookie total: Three hundred. 

Yes. We made three hundred cookies for our students (and coworkers). No, I will not EVER do that again. Next time it'll be something that's less effort.

I grabbed mini loaf pans when I went shopping for the Valentine's Day cookies, so when Ingrid had some very ripe bananas and I found some bananas on special at Homeplus because they were starting to turn a bit brown, I knew it was time for banana bread.  It turned out really well, but I think I'm going to add a bit more cinnamon next time. The recipe called for half a teaspoon, but I think it needs more than that.

Next endeavor: pumpkin bread. I have a can of pumpkin sitting in my pantry, and it's the exact same brand I used back in the US.  It's gonna be awesome. 

Meanwhile, my apartment still smells like banana bread. Awesome.