You can't catch me, cos I'm the Gingerbread Man.
On the second day of my illness, I mustered enough energy to let the kids do some baking.
We got these pre-prepared gingerbread dough from the supermarket. At €1.09 per pack, it comes in 2 slabs. All we had to do was roll out the dough and let the kids cut them with cookie-cutters.
The cookies go into the oven and are ready in merely 5 minutes. In another 5 minutes, we can eat them!
I used to love baking. My aunt's home has lots of baking equipment and an oven so I'm over there often to try out new recipes. I remembered baking a cake for a good friend's birthday and since I was at it, I'd thought I'd bake chocolate chocolate-chip cookies too.
That experience left me thoroughly tired out. The utensils needed to be cleaned and dried for the next batch, so that's double cleaning within 2 hours. Then the cake and cookies need to be decorated and/or wrapped.
That was the last time I did any major baking. Any thoughts about "starting my own bakery when I grow up" were banished henceforth. I enjoy baking and I think I'm pretty good at it but I won't do it as a hobby anymore.
I might bake again when any of my children develops an interest. It may be Jules, you know, because he is the one who loves eating and looking at me cook.
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