Becky Bakes Beautiful Bounties

I really love to bake! I enjoy cooking but baking is really what I love to do.

I have discovered though some new uh.... joys.

I decided to bake a pie for the FORGE potluck tomorrow! YUM!!
And instead of using a pre-prepared crust I decided to make my own. I've never done my own pie crust before.

The ingredients started easy enough, flour, salt, shortening. and then I needed a pastry cutter to blend them together...but I don't have one of those!!
Fortunately they suggested using two knifes if you dont have one! :)

Phew! That was close!

The dough is done!

Then I needed to roll out the dough. Uh-oh! I don't have a rolling pin!!

Fortunately I DO have a smooth water bottle! It turned out to be pretty useful!
The rolling was pretty easy... The hard part was moving it into my pie pan. It kept falling apart and cracking!! It was aggravating. I finally got in there and repaired it the best I could.



Now it was time to make the filling. I decided pumpkin was fitting for the season.
Don't you hate it when you start something and realize you don't have a key ingredient? Well I forgot I didn't have any eggs...so it was off with the oven and off to the store for eggs.

15 min later I'm back in the kitchen finishing my pie.

Here it is going into the oven


And here it is coming out! (of the oven people! Come on!)


Lessons learned:
~I have taken advantage of my moms baking tools and I really need to get some of my own now i guess.

~You don't always need a mixer to make things. I've already made 3 cakes, 2 pies, cinnamon rolls and a few other things without one...but it would be nice to have one.

Here is one of the cakes I made recently by hand. And I mean by hand!
Remember NO MIXER

My mom asked me to make a cake for my brothers birthday. I wasn't sure what to decorate it as and I have this one "fancy" cake pan that is flowers in a pot.



To make it more "boy" friendly (a.k.a. no flowers) I made a bouquet of skulls.


You're welcome Alex :)

~Becky