Hey Blog readers, as you know typically around Christmas time there is some baking going on at the Peck house… this year it was our job to bring treat’s to Christmas at Aunt Maude’s house… so after hours of looking through recipe’s I decided on the following recipe’s:
Crème De Menthe Brownies for Cindi who loves Andes mints
Pomegranate-White Chocolate Cheesecake becaue who doesn't love cheesecake
Key Lime Pie with Chocolate-Almond Crust for aunt maude whose favorite is key lime
Grabbed the ingredients on Friday and decided to do the baking on Sat – after I got home I realized that key limes are really a pain – and to top it off I didn’t have a juicer (Aunt Lori can you help?? Need to order a juicer thingy) so I cut them in quarters and used my pamperd chef garlic press and some cheesecloth to get the required amount of juice - this took longer than expected and while I was working on this – the kids (Cole and Lexi) showed up to hang out with Bill & I while Trevor and Cindi went to Cindi’s work Christmas party…
Cole & Lexi wanted to help so we read over the recipe and watched the movie on how to make the snake bites (I must add at this point that I bought a new immersion blender recently and am still learning how it works) I can tell you that one thing that we did learn rather quickly is that it is probably not an acceptable kitchen tool for a 5 year old. For those of you who are thinking "duh Traci" you have not met Lexi - she watches you do it and then she decides she can and will do it... so therefore, Lexi was helping me whip the key lime filling and ……
But never fear – we did not let this keep us down – (short of having to turn up the heat and have Cole and Lexi bake with no shirts on while they were in the washer) we kept on going…
Dinner was a wonderful concoction that let us finger paint our food before baking it with food coloring (who doesn't love that) snake bite pizza and my favorite part of that was the kids saying “Papa would not like this” and then calling my dad who hates snakes to invite him to dinner... for some reason he declined their offer
And after dinner we tackled Gingerbread men (with the kitchen aid this time)
While the cookies were in the oven and we were not looking, one of them ran away (apparently a Christmas story from Lexi's class)... Luckily we found where it was hiding...
It was a great time and after some serious sponge work the kitchen is back to normal. I will say the key lime pie turned into chocolate peanut butter pie the next day (I was all over those little limes) but the cheesecake and brownies were good.
Happy Baking :-)
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