Baking with Landon

Just another Baking Sunday!

Yesterday we went to Barnes and Noble to find the Wimpy Kid book, Wrecking Ball, that just came out last week.  We found it.  We bought it.  He started reading it in the store while I was looking at books.  He finished it last night.

This morning we worked on two baking projects - pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread.

This kid is getting to be pretty good!  He is learning more about the types of measuring cups, checking liquids at eye level, using a straight edge to level off dry ingredients, and using a church key (his mommy didn't know what that was) to open a can of evaporated milk.

He can grease and flour a pan with the best of them.  Cracking eggs?  A little shaky on that.  We had only a little bit of egg white dripping down the front of the cabinet and a little bit of yolk on the counter after he whisked the four eggs together before adding them to the batter.

He can open a can without leaving too much of a jagged edge at the last little bit where the lid is still attached.  He knows how to  dig into a box of baking soda and level off the spoon against the cardboard top.  He knew that when the teaspoon didn't fit into the little jar of pumpkin pie spice, that he could use the 1/2 teaspoon measure four times for the 2 teaspoons needed.

He knows that we needed to set the oven temperature at the very beginning of our work so that the oven could pre-heat.  If we put the breads into a cold oven, they baking will be skewed because they will start baking before the oven is fully heated.

He also learned that clean-up is part of the process. When one is a messy cook (and he is somewhat), the remnants of one's work must be wiped off the KitchenAid and the counters.

And the best thing?  He likes baking!