The tools that rule!

While I'm waiting for the last batch of Snickerdoodles to finish baking, I want to pay tribute to a trio of tools without whom CookieCam would have been MOST difficult.



Mixer: Mom got me the Kitchen Aid mixer two Christmases ago. With the paddle attachment, it's totally unstoppable when mixing even the thickest of dough. I even trust it to evenly mix food coloring into dough, like I did with the Peppermint Swirl Cookies.

Chopper: Did you see me struggle today to chop the peanuts for my toffee? You didn't? That's because of the chopper I bought just last month at a Pampered Chef party. It's fun to smack (Kim eyes the pervs warily) the top and watch it pulverize whatever it's over. Much fun. I chopped WAY too many peanuts for the toffee today, just so I could keep using the chopper!

Spoonage: Another Pampered Chef item, the adjustable measuring spoons were also fun to use. All you have to do is slide the gray piece to whatever measurement you need. The gray piece pops off, and it all goes in the dishwasher. Counterpoint: Baron vonPlaque insists that these are no easier than the older measuring spoons we have, which are the old school four-spoons-on-one-loop type. But come on...the new teaspoon let's me measure as small as 1/8th teaspoon. Trying to fill 1/2 of the 1/4 teaspoon is too hard with the old system. The less thought, the better!

One batch of dough mixed for tomorrow, two batches baked. Captain Morgan is telling me to go to sleep now. Tomorrow's Christmas Eve and therefore the last CookieCam outing of 2005!

And no, I'm not going to take off my top. Sheesh!


Current score: Kim 15, Cookies 2, Oven 1
Casualties: Minor burn on arm due to splashed boiling butter/sugar/corn syrup solution. The mark has already faded.
Total Amount of butter used since the start of CookieCam: 14 cups

posted by LadyGypsy @ 12:09 AM