The Fabulous Baker Boys

Pap-Pap was here for the week, visiting from Virginia. As usual, it was a great visit. He and Kiernan got along famously and had a great time getting up at five in the morning together. Crazy.

Sandi sent a project along with my dad, a fall cookie project. This included a recipe for cookies Pap-Pap and Kiernan were to bake together, along with some fall-themed cookie cutters (a pumpkin, an acorn, and a leaf). Yesterday we stopped at the grocery store on the way home from school and grabbed some ingredients, and when we got home the two boys set about baking.


The cookies turned out pretty good, which was both a surprise and not a surprise. It was not a surprise considering the source of the recipe. Sandi is a world-class cookie baker, and the recipe was an interesting one, calling for a box of white cake mix as its primary ingredient. I was curious. The surprise was that the cookies turned out at all given that at the beginning of the process I had to explain to my father what a stick of butter was.

When all was said and done the boys turned out some pretty tasty cookies reminiscent of the cookies you get at Christmas time. Also, I've got a bowl full of dough in the fridge waiting to be baked. This is particularly fine as I just got back from the airport, where I dropped Pap-Pap off for his flight home. The promise of a week full of fresh cookies does little to help the fact that we miss him terribly, already...but I'm willing to let it help.

Thanks for the cookies, Sandi. And, most importantly, for sending Pap-Pap.


[Here we see the bakers after yours truly has pointed out that they forgot to include a key ingredient--chocolate chips--before rolling out the dough. I mean seriously. What is the world coming to? How does someone forget chocolate chips?]