YIKES

I got the cutest gift from one of my students. It was a gingerbread shaped jar full of gingerbread cookie mix. You know, one of those fun mixes that you add a few ingredients to and viola!! homemade cookies.

Well Gracie saw it and took the cookie cutter off the jar and brought it too me with the request to make gingerbread cookies. So we got everything together in the kitchen. Set the camera up to record our adventure and pulled up a chair so the princess could help.

I read the directions... grease a 9x13 pan. Later it said to drop the cookies onto a cookies sheet. huh?? What pan am I supposed to use--ummmm.... I'll go with cookie sheet. Ok, pour the mix into the bowl. OK, I opened the jar, turned it upside down and nothing came out. So with the handy dandy use of a skewer and a knife, a lot of digging and whacking the mix tumbled out into the bowl. I added the butter, the flour, the eggs it needed and finally got to the cloves. 1 1/2 teaspoons. Wow! That seems like a lot but that's what the recipie says.

Can I tell you the cookies were vile. They burned my mouth. Gracie took one bite and said, "Mommy, I don't like these cookies!" And into the trash they all went.

All is not lost, however. Gracie and I had a great time baking today. We made a ginormous mess but giggled and talked. It was a good day. And tonight we mixed up a batch of Grandma Mary's no fail sugar cookie dough so we can cut them out tomorrow. :) We've got to have something ready for Santa!