Joseph came home with a recipe for apple cookies he printed out at school. He has been excited to bake for days. The recipe was two stapled and cut pieces of paper (he cut off the white parts of the page because they were blank). We guessed at the missing part of the recipe and he got started.

He read, measured and mixed everything himself. Then he recruited Maddie to get them on the cookie sheet: “You plop them and I’ll tell you if you need more dough, then I’ll shape them and space them. They have to be 2 inches apart.”

He thought they should bake for an hour but I suggested 10 minutes as a good starting point.

A long 10 minutes to wait…

One swift Tom Sawyer maneuver later and Maddie has begged to do the next batch herself while Joseph has retired to the family room to work on a puzzle.

And the final product! They sure taste healthy!

The proud baker.

Bakers.

Joseph thinks they are delicious.

Declared “World’s Best Cookie”

Faker! (She didn’t like the apples in them.)

But she can put on a delicious cookie face on command anyway.

Then things got silly.