Yesterday, I posted a photo of a craft project my son and his buddies did a couple of months ago, combining shaving cream and food coloring to decorate paper. Also yesterday, the same gang was over for another "find something for us to do" day. This time, we tried out a recipe from The Picture Cookbook, a recent Harried Parent's Book Club pick.
I say "we" tried out, but really, this time, they were able to do it all themselves, no parental hovering needed. The recipe chosen, "Chocolate Wafer and Whipped Cream Log," involved little more than squirting whipped cream on chocolate cookies, forming them into a log, chilling it, then covering it up with more whipped cream. The result is pictured -- suspiciously, out of two cans of whipped cream, there wasn't enough left to cover the whole thing nicely. I don't want to know what happened to all that whipped cream; I'm just happy it wasn't all over my kitchen walls.
The photo recipe worked really well in allowing them to do everything themselves. When I've had this group cooking in the past, I've had to micromanage their measuring and instruction-following, and it was very cool to just be able to sit in the next room with the other moms and chat, half-listening to nothing but the sound of teamwork.
The result? Hey, it's cookies covered in whipped cream. What's not to love?
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Photo by Terri Mauro