Boys Love to Cook Also! More Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Since the girls had the chance to bake cookies recently, Griffin expressed a real interest in whipping up a batch himself so we took advantage of his day off from school to make REAL chocolate chip cookies without the mint!
We used the recipe in the cookbook "Cookies" instead of our usual chippits package of chocolate chips recipe.

Captain Cooking with the ingredients laid out

Pure Vanilla, every time

Measuring his flour

The fine art of gradually adding flour to the mixer

Learning how to pour the vanilla onto the edge of the bowl

Damp Tea towel to catch the dusty flour and it's time to add the chips!

Yummy cookie dough goodness

Discovering why we scrape the edges before we finish mixing

Good Ole Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

Baking with my girl.  I measured all of the ingredients out and then let Lily be in charge of adding it gradually to the mixer and sizing out the portions.  She is a big fan of adding mint to the batch but this time we omitted the green "minty" food colouring. 
These turned out grrrreat!

Green Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies with my Little Helper

My kids spent the day at Wonderland with their Nonna & Zia.  I still had B scheduled to spend the day with me though, so without her playmates, I knew we had to schedule in some baking time!  Lily had been requesting Mint chocolate chip cookies inspired by her Irish friend Briare.  Apparently Braire's Dad makes a mean mint chocolate chip cookie, and they're GREEN.  So we got busy trying to replicate them as a surprise for Lily. 

So we used the typical Chippits recipe and added green food colouring and peppermint extract.  I was especially excited about taking one of my new portion scoops out for it's maiden voyage!

Baking Bucket List

CUPCAKES
Filled Cupcakes
Easter Cupcakes  DONE during my Maiden Voyage
Tiramisu Cupcakes DONE went with a different recipe though
Pina Colada Cupcakes
Pineapple Upside Down Cupcakes
Snowball Coconut Cupcakes  DONE
Boston Cream Cupcakes
Bing Cherry Chocolate Cupcakes
Raspberry cobbler cupcakes
Cupcake Tower
Oreo Cupcake ~ Vanilla base
Oreo Cupcake ~ Chocolate base
Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes

CAKES
Carrot cake from scratch
Rosie's Fruit Cake
Coffee Cake
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Pumpkin Roll
Tiered Cake
Ambrosia Cake
Red Velvet Cake
Pig Cake
Lava Cakes
Tiramisu

CAKE PROJECTS
Wilton Dora Cake
Cake Pops
Heart Filling Cake
Barbie Doll Cake
Rainbow Cake

COOKIES & BARS
Macaroons
Amber's Peanut butter cookies with the hershey's kiss on top
Cannoli

PIES
Lemon Meringue Pie
Lattice Topped Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Grasshopper Pie

CHEESECAKES
Chocolate Cheesecake
Pumpkin Swirl Cheesecake
White Cheesecake bites

TARTS
Butter Tarts

OTHER TREATS
Stained Glass Jello