Some of my favorite things to do lately with Megan are baking projects. On Sunday we dyed Easter eggs and stirred up some Easter sugar cookies. She was a real trooper through both processes. We had to help her carefully lower the eggs into the dye and take them out again but by the end she was starting to get the coordination down. That was also a little test of patience because of course she didn't want to let the eggs sit in the dye very long.
The cookies were a three part process and she was involved in all the steps. She thought it was cool that our KitchenAid stand mixer did the stirring for us but I made sure that Megan still was able to sift the flour - her favorite part. Right before bed I rolled out the dough and Megan was able to make the cutouts. John had to help keep her hands off the dough until it was time to cut by sliding her chair back and forth. I think the dough resembled playdough just a little too much! We made flowers, a cross, bunnies and butterflies - perfect for Easter.
Megan's favorite step came Monday night when we got to decorate. We used some neon food coloring to jazz up the frosting and she even got to stir in the blue food coloring herself. I spread the frosting on the cookies and she helped me out with adding the sprinkles. Mostly it was taking a handful of sprinkles and dropping it on the cookie as you can see below. Can you tell which one cookie Mommy decorated?
After Megan had decorated the above cookies she discovered that they tasted pretty good too and finished a whole cookie in no time!
"Oh wash!"
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