How often do you bake?

[brachysira]

Just for fun, to keep us active.  

With the cold keeping us in, and every playdate cancelled due to illness, we've been baking cookies almost every day.  Plus, my friend gave us some sourdough starter so now I feel like i should bake bread once/week.  In addition to how often, what do you use to make healthier cookies?  I made some gingersnaps with rye flour and DH hated them, but 3 little ones did not pause.

Also, does your LO like baking?  M is so excited to do it, and dumps things in.  She tries to stir, but doesn't really get very far.  She likes to eat the brown sugar, cchips, and dough.  She gets bored before they are done usually.

[ericalee27]

DS1 loves baking. I make him do as much as possible -- pouring/measuring ingredients, stirring, spooning dough out (we usually do cookies.) It's definitely one of my go to activities when we're stuck inside and I've run out of ideas. Generally, we bake maybe once a month - more so around the holidays.

ETA - Oh yeah, he has developed an addiction to cookie dough now, just like his mama 

[aydee]

I just baked with the kids for the first time on Valentine's Day. It was such a hit that I'm inspired now to start baking more. It's a little hard to fit it in with my work schedule, but I think we'll aim to make something every other week.

[hangryhedgehog]

I haven't tried baking with DS yet, but he loves licking the beaters. I bake probably once or twice a month. DH doesn't share my love of baked goods, so I end up eating it all.

[holly321]

I bake about once a week. My dd helps, most of the time. Ds sometimes gets involved, but isnt usually interested.

[mishka29]

She loves to help with cooking. I don't do any baking really bc I don't eat baked goods. We should do cookies or something bc she would like it I think. She helped make banana bread once and loved crushing the bananas with her hands!

[puck1182]

I don't bake very often anymore, but DD helped me make the cupcakes for her birthday party the other week. I measured everything out, and she poure everything in and helped me mix. I handled pouring the batter into the tin and frosting them, but she did a good job with the first part! I'm hoping to be able to get her involved with cooking/baking a bit more, but I do a lot of prep work the night before, after she goes to bed, so it doesn't always work out.

[sagen]

We don't do baked goods too often, once or twice a month maybe. He loves to dump stuff in the mixer though.

[sagen]

My oldest can make cookies herself, and all three of my older kids cab crack eggs with out shells getting in now. I should let them make me cookies tonight

[kleigh926]

Hardly ever. It's kind of embarrassing because my mom is like the cookie queen. She bakes tons of Christmas cookies and gives them out, and has an awesome chocolate chip cookie recipe that she is known for. I don't really enjoy baking that much, and I feel like getting DD involved right now would just be a huge mess. Plus, the last thing DH and I need is baked goods sitting around for us to eat. We eat too much junk so as it is.

[sagen]

For a while there I made it my mission to perfect baking pies, and baked one once a week. I am burnt out on pies, and it is now ones or twice a year, but I make a mean pie.

[laketide]

The only time I really bake is if I'm taking something to a family get together. The last time I let E help me bake it was a huge mess. The mess wouldn't have been a big deal if we could have cleaned it up at the end of the cooking but every single time she realized it was a mess she would start yelling "oh no me messy" so I had to clean about 100 times in the process.

[wolfpack]

My DS loves to help me in the kitchen. DD rather just empty out the kitchen cabinets on the floor
I bake a lot. I hoping to make some bread tonight. Also go the stuff to make a cherry almond poke cake. it sounded good

[expatmama]

A couple times a week. DS1 got a baking set, some kids cook books and a we have been baking several times a week since then.

He doesn't like to eat, so we end up giving a lot of stuff away.

[pinesnow]

Feb 16, 2015 15:07:56 GMT -5 @sterling said:

I hate baking, so maybe 2-4 times a year.

This. Occasionally I'll make banana bread but that's about it. I've never included DS in the endeavor though.

[jwill]

Does from a box count?

[seadragon2013]

Two to three times a year. I go all out at Christmas and make CCC a few times each year.

DH has gotten quite the rep as a baker at daycare. He whips up those Betty Crocker bags of cookie mix for daycare parties, but allows the daycare providers to think he made them from scratch. They all request his Snickerdoodles now

[sjames2015]

I hate baking. I love to cook though. So only if I happen to be feeling in the mood to bake. Which is like twice a year???

[verovladamir]

I don't really bake with the kids. But I definitely bake something big at least twice/month. I bake for the gaming group. This week it was a Boston cream pie and bailey's cheesecakes. Last time it was chocolate cupcakes with oreo buttercream and oreo cheesecakes with chocolate ganache. Before that it was brown sugar cupcakes with homemade butterscotch filling... i've done cookies, brownies, blondies, even a whole pecan pie....

That's just since December...

[summer]

I love baking, but with the new baby it has definitely not happened as often. DS helped me make pumpkin bread in November (he dumped stuff in the bowl and "stirred"), but it was kind of a lot to keep him interested.

Normally, though, I probably bake a couple of times a month. DH doesn't like most baked things (he has an aversion to bread and bread-like things, such as cake and brownies), so it is tough since I end up eating most of whatever I make, unless it is cookies.

[rosebean]

I just don't. But DS pulls up a chair to watch me cook dinner. It's cute.

[jumparoundbucky]

I don't anymore. I used to a lot, and I miss it. Sometimes I make brownie batter without eggs and eat it while I'm hiding in the bathroom.

[cinnasugar]

DH likes to bake. I know you are all jealous. He'll get up on a random Saturday and decide to make biscuits or bread or something. He also, like sagen, makes a mean pie. I'll do cookies or banana bread once in awhile but I'm not as into baking. I don't think I'd have the patience for baking with both kids, but I like to bake with DD when DS is napping.

[Meghanfelldown]

I'm currently on a baking embargo until after my sister's wedding in March. she's a model and a size 0 and I'm a normal person. So I decided to stop baking for a few weeks.

however, prior to that, I was baking weekly. Muffins, breads, cookies, etc (hence my need to cut down). Before DS was born,(i.e. when I had free time), I made everything from scratch: breads, bagels, crackers, etc). I have an awesome recipe for Wheat Thins crackers that taste better than store-bought. But they take 2 hours to make with all the rolling, so I haven't made them in ages, because who has two hours these days?

I don't get DS involved in baking yet, he'd be all over the place and not helpful in the slightest. He likes to peek through the window in the oven door to see what's happening, though!