Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon and today I am doing the teeny weeny challenge
to see how small I can bake.
When I did the Giant Magnum ice-cream you guys challenged me to do something mini.
Now obviously to do that the first thing I need to do is build a mini kitchen so off
to the shops to buy some MDF and a heap of other things that I think might come in handy
like tubing because I want to try and make a working tap.
I don't do things by half.
When we built our real kitchen not that long ago I had about 3 weeks with no bench tops
which meant no sink and no tap and no running water, so I was filming on a little section
with a bucket of hot water next to me, a kitchen with no water is not a good thing people.
Now I've built all the walls and cabinets and I really want a working light in my fridge,
I don't know why I just do.
I found a little light bulb for that.
Push that through from the back and we have light!
Some miniatures I just had to buy and I've adjusted them to make them how I wanted them.
And now on to the sink!.
I am just going to fold some aluminium flashing and then cut out the corners and fold that
in.
Now I am going to use hot glue to seal it and waterproof the joins.
That wouldn't work with a real sink but this one is so tiny I think it will work.
Time to cut a hole in the counter top and make room for the sink to go in there.
And just pop that into place from the underneath and then poke through the tap.
I have always loved miniatures, and we couldn't afford a dolls-house when I was little so
I just used a shelf on my bookshelf and put all little miniatures on there, most of which
I made.
I've just dug out my old stuff, this is a tiny cross stitch pillow that I stitched and
this little teddy bear that I made as well and stuffed it with cotton wool.
The fabric for this one, I actually made this when I was older, this is the fabric from
the bridesmaid's dresses from my wedding.
Enough reminiscing, let's bake.
So today I'm attempting mini chocolate chip cookies.
I thought I'd start simple, because hey I've just built a whole kitchen.
Grab the butter out of the fridge.
And then place the sugar in the bowl .... and then add the butter .... this is so teeny
weeny it is really tricky to stir it and still let you see what I'm doing.
Keep stirring until it's all mixed together.
And then add in one egg, This is looking eggscellent 😂
Write your puns in the comments below, I'm going to pin the best pun to the top.
Stir that together, and I am going to swap to the whisk because the spoon is not really
working for me.
That's looking better.
And then add in your baking powder, don't you just love these mini measuring spoons
they're so cute.
Then add the flour and mix that altogether.
Stirring until you can't see any more flour.
Now add in your teeny weeny chocolate chips.
The more the better when you're making cookies.
You can actually make this recipe normal size too, I'll put the recipe on the howtocookthat.net
website for you and there's a link below.
Stir stir stir some more until they are all mixed in.
Let's clear some room on our little counter, put the flour away on the shelf, put all the
dishes in the sink.
Lots of kids tell me their mum won't let them bake - the secret is you need to clean up
after yourself and then she will let you.
Or maybe bake mini like I am and that might work for you!
Line a baking tray with some non-stick paper.
Roll little tiny spoon-fulls of mixture into a ball and place them onto the tray.
Make sure you space them out so there's room for them to spread in the oven.
Get some extra choc chips and put them on top of each cookie because people tend to
choose cookies based on how many choc-chips they can actually see on top.
Even though they are all the way through the cookie we want to see them on top.
Light your oven.
And place the tray inside.
Ooopps Sorry, let's try that again.
Place the tray inside the oven and leave them to bake.
Take your leftover cookie mixture and wrap it in plastic wrap making like a roll of cookie
dough.
Then you can put that in the freezer and any time you want freshly baked cookies just take
it out slice a piece off the end and bake it in the oven.
Time to wash the dishes, instead of a working tap I should have installed a working dishwasher!
I don't know what Iw was thinking, I like dishwashers.
My fingers are way too big to wash the dishes in here.
Let me swap to tweezers.
That's better.
They're looking nice and clean.
Oh wait there is still a spoon in there let's pull that out.
Now we can pull the plug.
Yay my pipes are working!
Let's check on the cookies.
I am going to use tweezers because it is super hot and I don't want to burn my fingers.
Look at that, they are looking pretty cool, I'll try not to drop them this time.
The old wood-fired oven has cooked them nicely.
I'd better put that flame out.
Grab a chopping board to protect the counter and put the cookies onto that.
Now take them off and put them on a cooling rack so they can cool down.
Fresh hot cookies have to be eaten with a glass of milk or a cup if you don't have a
glass in your kitchen.
Grab a couple of cookies on your plate and bring them to the table and it's time to dunk
them in the milk.
Yummmy, the only problem is they are a little bit small.
Dave: "Awww they are so tiny ... can you make me ... an ice cream sandwich?"
I can try :) Put all your mini baking requests in the comments
below or any other challenges that you want me to try.
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Make it a great week and I'll see you on Friday.