Baking

A few days ago I decided I wanted to bake. And, because I don't have much to blog about at the moment, here are some pictures! Warning: stop reading now if you're craving cookies and stuck in a country where the cookies could pass for Styrofoam. I have a very lazy approach to baking and cooking. If it has more than five ingredients or takes more than an hour to prepare, I just don't think it's worth it. I was thrilled to find two recipes that sounded like they had been created just for me.
1. Pumpkin Spice Cookies
2. Cake balls
And these are the only three ingredients you need for both recipes: pumpkin, icing and spice cake mix.
First, you mix the pumpkin with the cake mix...
and lick the spatula, of course.
I put half the dough in a cake pan to bake and the other half into cookies.
After the cake cooled, I crumbled it and mixed in icing. And, yes, it did look exactly the same as the dough before it was cooked, but it tasted better.
I froze the icing dough overnight then rolled it into balls. And I decided to do it in the living room watching Northanger Abbey so I wouldn't get bored. The blanket was Mom's idea to keep the rug clean.
The finished product! Pumpkin Spice cookies with a bit of cream cheese icing.
And Cake Balls (also with a bit of cream cheese icing on top).