Confession - all items being baked today are either from a mix or premade dough… Good consistent results that way, and frankly, more time to bake more things… :) It’s been several years since I did Christmas baking. Heck, this is the first time in about 5 years I’ve even decorated for Christmas.
Item one is a loaf of
Get mix to pan, notice oven still not to 375 yet. Also notice that the can of Baker’s Joy is still sitting on the counter, unused.
Decide to prep the sugar cookies. Finish prepping sugar cookies, bowl back to fridge. Oven still not quite there. Wait 10-15 minutes. Decide to heck with it, put pan in anyway. (If you hadn’t figured it out, my oven sucks)
As I put the pan in, knock off the oven thermometer. Put back, close oven door, hear thermometer fall off again. Open, put back, close, hear it fall off again. Open, put back, secure with pliers that are sitting next to oven. Realize that the oven temp has now plummeted below 300. Grab oven mitt and remove pan. However, pan is non-stick on the outside. *Very* non-stick. End up w/ oven mitt IN the mix, almost dump the entire thing all over the inside of the oven door.
Place pan on cutting board. Pray that it doesn’t melt cutting board. Close oven, tweak temp knob, will be trying again in 10 minutes…
I think this loaf will be the one that I am keeping for myself. :)
