Day 10!!! Can you believe it? We’ve made it to day 10! In celebration of day 10 we decided to bake cookies, 2 different types. (Ok, I can’t lie to you, we were just going to bake 1 kind of cookie but the kids wanted to make one and I wanted to make another and neither of us would yield so we made both!)
When we started this journey we bought some freeze dried fruit. Per usual I didn’t make a list and just ordered a bunch from amazon and we ended up with some that the recipes we had our eyes on didn’t require. Freeze dried raspberries have been sitting on the counter just begging to be used for something. The girls finally came up with it! We altered a King Arthur Baking recipe for Vanilla White Chocolate Drops. Instead of using 2 cups of white chocolate chips we used one and used a cup of our freeze dried raspberries! They were similar in making to a traditional chocolate chip cookie, but now we have to chill the dough for at least 2 hours! We’re very excited to see what these will turn out like. Here’s the link to the original recipe: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/vanilla-white-chocolate-drops-recipe. I suspect that these little beauties would be great with cranberries in the fall, maybe some toasted walnuts. The possibilities are endless!
Those are the cookies the kids wanted to make. The big kid abandoned ship for a book (not super unusual) but the little helped every step of the way. She even helped crack an egg today! This resulted in egg shell getting into the batter, but that’s ok. Helpful hint; if you get egg shell into the batter use a bigger piece of shell to get it out. Egg shell is attracted to egg shell and it comes out pretty easy, much easier then digging around with your fingers…yes I know from experience.
The second batch we made was my choice. There’s this wonderful little cookie shop up here in Vermont (there are several, but this one is special for a lot of reasons) and they sell frozen cookie dough for you to bake at home. Yes, they ship, yes you can have the link: https://www.vermontcookielove.com/ Their cookies are AMAZING, and my favorite is Mothers Love. It’s chocolate and butterscotch chip and HEAVENLY! The only trouble is I no longer eat gluten and they don’t make them without, so I’ve been missing them! I decided to fix it and try my hand at making my own. (Who knows how they’ll compare, they’re currently in the oven and smell great so I’m hopeful)
We took our favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe (which is on the back of the Kirkland brand chocolate chips if you can believe it!) and instead of all chocolate chips we did half chocolate and half butterscotch. Again, this was not a difficult or complicated recipe, which is why we were able to do 2 recipes today. The 5 year old worked as hard on these as she did on her choice, but was put off of egg cracking given the serious drama of the previously made batch. (I’m kidding, kind of…she refused to crack the eggs but it was because it was “way too yucky” on her hands. The drama is real with this kid!)
These were a couple of fun and easy recipes that we were familiar with and made into our own. I always think it’s great fun to experiment in the kitchen, especially with the kids. They think WAY outside the box and have some up with some great ideas (these raspberry white chocolate cookies I’m betting with go on that list) as well as some less appetizing ideas (brownies with pickles baked on top, taco cookies…I could go on, but I don’t want to make anyone vomit). Let us know if you head into the kitchen and what you might experiment with!
As always, you can find out the taste test results on our Instagram @100daysofbakingwithkids and on Facebook at 100 days of baking with kids. Hope to hear what you’re up to!
100 days of baking with kids 