Anyone teaching their kids to bake ?

[tamarind]

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http://tamarindvillage.blogspot.com/2009/11/rose-cupcakes.html

We had a wonderful time baking cupcakes on Sunday. It is really easy to bake cupcakes ! The cupcakes were made and decorated by my kids. We bought the ready made roses from a shop. I thought our cupcakes tasted heavenly(my own opinion lah), the trick is to use good butter. I used Emborg butter bought from NTUC Fairprice. It is also very important to take out the cupcakes once they are baked, do not over bake.

We have never attended any baking classes. My recipes are on page 1 of this thread. It is super easy to follow.

Baking an excellent way of bonding with the kids, and a great way to de-stress for me.

[buds]

Slurrghhp! :drool: :drool: :drool:


I WANT! I WANT!

Do you do delivery? :lol:

I dun have an oven so i cannot do any baking stuff.

[tamarind]

buds:

Slurrghhp! :drool: :drool: :drool:


I WANT! I WANT!

Do you do delivery? :lol:

I dun have an oven so i cannot do any baking stuff.

OK I will PM you once I start the business of cupcake delivery, making use of child labour :lol:

[buds]

Ssshh.. dun say out loud. :lol:

Hey, mebbe if i pass by Jurong Point
i can hop over your place & pick the
goodies myself. Hehehee... :lol:

[tamarind]

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I just baked a batch of cookies with my kids last night. The cookies are the most delicious cookies that I have ever tasted hahaha My kids did all the measuring and they had a good time rolling the dough and cutting out the cookies.

I use the same old recipe in my blog in 2008 :
http://tamarindvillage.blogspot.com/2008/02/cookies.html

The photo displayed above is from 2008. The cookies we made last night are the same, but taste even better. I realized that the type of butter is very important. This time I used President unsalted French butter which gives the cookies a wonderful aroma and delicious taste. Also, we should slowly add in the flour and stop when we get the correct consistency, not just throw in 3 cups of flour.

The best thing about baking our own cookies, is that we can taste it fresh out of the oven ! The cookies we buy off the shelf cannot compare with these. And of course we don't have to worry about the ingredients. My kids love the cookies and cannot stop eating them

[buds]

Yeai to the French then, huh Tam? :celebrate:


No additional toppings for these?
Just nice on its own? Hmmm... I'm
imagining those Danish butter
cookies right now..

I like it that the cookies are bite sized.
Easier too eat! (So will sure eat more!) :lol:

Hopefully our new place can get a new
oven, so i can try your recipe.

[autumnbronze]

tamarind:

The photo displayed above is from 2008. The cookies we made last night are the same, but taste even better. I realized that the type of butter is very important. This time I used President unsalted French butter which gives the cookies a wonderful aroma and delicious taste. Also, we should slowly add in the flour and stop when we get the correct consistency, not just throw in 3 cups of flour.

Agree with you abt the type of butter used, Tamarind. As for the method of adding the flour in, will try that out.

Btw, am a novice baker only ....

[buds]

You novice baker, autumnbronze? :politebleah:

You're too humble.. i'm novice compared to u.
The cookies you baked me the other time was
yumz ya know, on top of looking so divine. In
fact, i'm not just novice reali... the right term
wud be : totally clueless. :roll:

Still using the no-oven excuse.. :lol:

[verykiasu2010]

tamarind:

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I just baked a batch of cookies with my kids last night. The cookies are the most delicious cookies that I have ever tasted hahaha My kids did all the measuring and they had a good time rolling the dough and cutting out the cookies.

I use the same old recipe in my blog in 2008 :
http://tamarindvillage.blogspot.com/2008/02/cookies.html

The photo displayed above is from 2008. The cookies we made last night are the same, but taste even better. I realized that the type of butter is very important. This time I used President unsalted French butter which gives the cookies a wonderful aroma and delicious taste. Also, we should slowly add in the flour and stop when we get the correct consistency, not just throw in 3 cups of flour.

The best thing about baking our own cookies, is that we can taste it fresh out of the oven ! The cookies we buy off the shelf cannot compare with these. And of course we don't have to worry about the ingredients. My kids love the cookies and cannot stop eating them

the type of butter is VERY important

for own consumption - use the best available, same for flour, sieve it too, before using

[tamarind]

buds:

Yeai to the French then, huh Tam? :celebrate:


No additional toppings for these?
Just nice on its own? Hmmm... I'm
imagining those Danish butter
cookies right now..

I like it that the cookies are bite sized.
Easier too eat! (So will sure eat more!) :lol:

Hopefully our new place can get a new
oven, so i can try your recipe.

These cookies taste better than those Danish butter cookies because they are made with love :love: Every time I bite into a cookie, I think of all the fun we had making it together My girl kept eating the cookies non-stop, we had to keep it away from her.