Catholic Dads

Easy Bake Love

December 27th, 2008

On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love gave to me … an Easy Bake oven and some sugar cookies.

In a North American rite of passage for little girls, Blynken got her first Easy Bake oven. She patiently waited until after all the day’s activities and until after dinner.

Then dear old Dad screwed in the requisite 100W light bulb (not Soft White! not Long Life!) in the Easy Bake oven and we pre-heated it for 15 minutes. We carefully opened the package of prepared sugar cookie mix and added 3/4 tsp. of water (using her brand new measuring cups and spoons, I might add) to make dough.

We rolled out the dough in two batches – one chocolate, one plain – and used the cookie cutter to make little hearts in the center; we switched the vanilla heart into the chocolate cookie and the chocolate heart into the vanilla cookie for nice effect.

Blynken put the cookies in the tins and baked the cookies in her Easy Bake oven and shared them with Wynken, Mrs. Nod, and Nod-girl.

“Dad, is it okay if you don’t get a cookie? There are only four of them.”

(Hmm, I do all the work and Mom gets the cookie?) Yes, it’s quite OK, I like to lick the bowl better anyway.

You never saw a girl more contented; she’s just thrilled being a girl and doing girlie things. She even cleaned up afterward. Then she turns to me and says: