Friday 19 May 2023

Today Is...World Baking Day

Many things in the kitchen are dangerous and most TV shows come with the warning for kids not to try this at home but they need to send a memo to some adults as well because it didn't take long for my family to look unnervingly at my baking efforts and kindly tell me that they thought my skill-set probably lied elsewhere but my baking roads are always paved with good intentions, just that they are usually followed by the sound of things being spat out into the bin.
Unfortunately salt and sugar look very much alike but even i have not yet managed to make cookies as awful as one girl who decided the best way to grieve over her grandfather dying was to do some baking for her school chums.
After they cooled and feeling very pleased with her efforts, she took them to school and handed then out to her classmates and when asked what was in the slightly grainy tasting cookies, she told the that she had included a secret ingredient in honour of her dead Grandparent.
Quite a moment must have followed as she assured them that there was not some kind of hallucinogenic drug or her Grandfather remaining heart medicine in the mix, she wasn't that mad, it was just the usual butter, caster sugar, plain flour, cinnamon, milk chocolate chips, oh and her Grandfathers ashes.
She had decided that it would be a fitting sendoff for her to add him to the cookies and share them with their friends so took his cremated remains and baked them into her cookies.
The school reported her to the police who came, scratched their heads for a bit and decided to drop it as they wouldn't know what crime to charge her with.

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