Maxwell the Baker

The Holidays are rapidly approaching and we are hard at work on baking yummy treats. Since the rain has been coming down pretty hard lately, Maxwell and I have taken to baking instead of outdoor activities. We started the day by making daddies favorite, Chocolate Chip Banana Bread. I have started to make it healthier by adding flax meal and using whole wheat flour. It tastes incredible! 

Maxwell loves eating the chocolate chips as we work. I try to keep it to a minimum, but he is such a good helper, he deserves a treat.

 Look at how intently he is checking out those chocolate chips! I am sure in his little mind he is thinking, if I just look hard enough maybe she will give them ALL to me!

 Wait, you want me to put them all in there?!? What the heck!

 Okay, I guess.

 There were a few that fell on the counter and he picked them up and put them in the bowl...all except one.

What a delicious baker!

After the banana bread and a nap we made pumpkin and turkey shaped pumpkin cookies for his preschool friends feast on the day before Thanksgiving. We roasted a pumpkin, from the preschool pumpkin patch outing and used some for the cookies. Maxwell and daddy put the icing on them and they were great. He had a blast rolling out the dough and using cookie cutters. Our next little moms group actvity is Christmas cookies, so he will be very prepared.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We sure did!