Christmas cookie chaos..

I've been baking on and off since last Saturday, cookies mainly, but also banana bread (forever using up those blackening bananas that the kids refuse to eat). These cookies are for my son's school party today. Husband was complaining that we haven't had any yet, we as in the family, since the last batch I baked were for two friends and their families..

Not all the cookies in the batch went to school today.... well, its my birthday today, so I'll eat if I want to!!!

Making and baking..

I can't believe I have never actually made bread before now. I seem to have some vague recollection of perhaps attempting it many many moons ago, but can't really recall it. So with the school break it seemed like the quintessential thing to do with the kids.

Well with one child only. We did it while the little toddler slept! Sneaky I know, but I thought the first time was going to be enough of a trial without little toddler hands slinging about as well. As it turned out, it went really smoothly and the mess was easily cleaned. Although it doubled its size before going into the oven, it came out a bit hmm, doughy. We were not prepared with a bread tin or anything, so it wasn't shaped too well. Nevertheless, it was a seeded loaf and very very tasty. I usually avoid bread due to bloating, but was told that fresh baked bread with wild yeast and no additives does not cause bloating.
So far I don't notice any, and the bread was tucked into before I had a chance to photo the end result! But you can still see the steam rising off it. Yum, I think a bread machine may be on the cards...