Author: Tanie

Sym asked me today if I could get her a cinnamon bun while I was out (I went shopping to cheer myself up), but I thought it would be more fun if we made our own! After some quick googling I chose the first recipe on this page because it didn’t require yeast (we didn’t have time to let dough rise before her dad came to pick her up). I modified it slightly by:
a) not fully reading the instructions and putting in too much butter
b) making a simple glaze with confectioner’s sugar & milk instead of cream cheese icing
c) dividing the dough in half to make 18 smaller, Symmie-sized buns which I baked in muffin trays

Aprons on, ready to bake! Sym didn’t wear her apron that matches mine; she says that one is only for cupcakes.

Sym was mostly in charge of DSi-ing.

They look pretty good! I mixed the glaze up in my gravy boat (which has never been used for gravy) so I could pour it on the buns easily. I sifted the sugar first, and started with about half a cup, then added milk by half-tablespoons and more sugar by heaping tablespoons until it reached the right consistency. You need a lot of sugar and only a teeny-tiny bit of milk for this.

They look REALLY GOOD. But what does Symmie think?

I think I can chalk these up as a success! Of course, after making them I have a little bit of a situation on my hands…

ARGH. Now I really regret not doing the dishes after dinner last night. Whoopsies!

Today the daycare kids all celebrated Friday by being mean to one another, but you know what? A little of this and it’s all better.

Oh and also my human family.

Dougal turned seven today! What a good dog! He celebrated by wrassling with his bff Georgie.

Here he is as a babby puppy in the spring of 2004.

How different he looked!

Inspired by this Slate article and the discovery that I had both chocolate AND peanut butter chips in the cupboard, I baked cookies. Beautiful cookies. I need to keep the illusion of a perfect life alive!

These might seriously be the prettiest cookies I’ve ever made. Usually I’m too lazy/unwilling to sticky up my hands to roll little dough balls and just plop spoonfuls willy-nilly, which bake all deformed and ugly and usually end up sticking together. But NOT TODAY. Today I rolled the dough balls and spaced them out properly and even rotated my baking sheets. Add this to my recent spate of actually cooking dinner and I’m like a homemaking machine! Now if I could only do all this while keeping up with the laundry… Oh and I should have taking pictures while I was baking because I used my matching M-Cup Matroyshka measuring cups and M-Spoons Matryoshka measuring spoons, how whimsical and precious of me.

As usual I used the Olive Oil Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe from The Crepes of Wrath.

Idk if you guys know, but when I link to books and stuff (mostly books) on Amazon.com, it’s through the Affliates program (I do have a ~disclaimer~ about it on my bio page and all my reading list pages). What this means is if someone clicks those links and buys something, I earn a sweet nickel or two. Well, last night I got my first payment from the program- after only IDK A YEAR PRACTICALLY I got this sweet giftcard for $11.57.

I applied it to my account and it will cover the cost of a book for my Kindle. Which I’ll then post about here, and someone will click the link and buy it and thus the process begins anew.

ALSO last night I sold my pastel rainbow micro bunting on etsy (get your own here, it’s only $2.50 so you really have no excuse).
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