Cooking? Really?

A few weeks ago I wanted to get Rebekah motivated on - well, anything. I asked her if she could learn to do anything what would it be. She said she wanted to learn how to cook. Cook? Really? That's has to be my least favorite thing. I was hoping for music, or sports, or something else but cooking? Ugh. 

However, it's what she wants so I gave her a couple cook books to look through. She marked several recipes and we narrowed it down to two. Her first one was trail mix. 

Don needed to help mom out with something so we brought our ingredients and made it at mom's. Rebekah did everything from reading, measuring, stirring, and so forth. I redirected if and when needed. 

The directions said to cook in the slow cooker for 2 1/2 hours, stirring every 30 minutes. About 2 stirs in Rebekah was wondering if we really needed to cook it for that long and stir it that many times, but we persevered. And the final product was wonderful! 

Next was an ice cream torte. It called for a spring form pan which I did not have so we used a pie pan. Rebekah working on mashing the cookie crust. 

 

So hard not to lick the fingers. It's definitely a work in progress. 

Finished product. It was rather good as well. She's not as precise as I am (I would make sure there's exactly the same amount of ice cream to fudge filling to crust ratio throughout the torte where as she's more some here, some more there, etc) but it still was wonderful. I'm sure she'll hone her techniques as she goes. 

This last week we worked on a raspberry chocolate chip tea cake. 

You put some of the batter down then some raspberry jam (which she doesn't like raspberry so we went with old faithful strawberry) and the rest of the batter on top. 

She was quite pleased with the results as was I.

Showing were the strawberry jam went.

Very tasty indeed. 

She was moving on to some other dessert and although I do want to encourage her I also need her to not make so many desserts during quarantine so Don and I are pushing for a main or side dish. However, she has quite the taste for sweets. I'll keep you posted on the progress.