COOKIES

I decided it would be a good idea to do sugar cookies with the kids, this turned in to a tough and long task, I will not take my kitchen in Canada for granted again…
I was given access to the house kitchen at Evens brothers house as he has a working oven. I mixed up the dough and refrigerated it, and then Micaela, Mark and I took 6 of the kids from SMDT out for a field trip to the donated kitchen. After some hand washing and a bit of direction we were off… well we tried! Haha it did not take long for us to fill the one pan that fit in the apartment size oven, and then we had to wait. Also with all the warm hands and the warm air the dough was pretty much melting. And city power was off, so we had no fridge to cool it in. I sent the kids outside to play and monitored the baking. Soon I found oils marks on the kids shorts and found that a few of the boys had taken balls of dough and where eating it, raw…  now this might taste yummy, but for these tummies that are only used to their regular diet I knew tummy aches where to follow. I encouraged them not to eat it… not sure how well it worked… but kids are kids! Turns out I had to stay MUCH longer working on the cookies then anticipated, as the oven was hard to regulate. I sent Micaela and Mark back to SMDT with the kids as it was getting late. Then I continued… till we ran out of gas for the oven.  The following night I found we had city power at home and decided to try this process again… in the toaster oven. Well it took 3 hours to make 2-dozen cookies, since out little pan only held 3 or 4 cookies… it was HOT in my room from that little toaster oven, and a LONG night! The next day with the kids we iced the cookies and had them put sprinkles on them! It went rather well, and that night during our outdoor movies the kids enjoyed every bite!

here we go! no real measuring cups... glad it turned out

my helper at home! Pauline!

here goes nothing...  at Evens' brothers house

2 days later we decorated them

'kenson' gives them a try