COOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!

Earlier this week, Amy came up with a brilliant idea. "WE SHOULD MAKE COOKIES!!", she said. So, that's what we did today. It was wonderful.

The first step to making chocolate chip cookies involved purchasing a few ingrediants, such as chocolate chips. Sydney, Amy, and I, after visiting two different grocery stores, came to the conclusion that chocolate chips are not very common here. There weren't any. So, instead we settled for a a few bricks of semi-sweet chocolate.

Amy's family graciously offered us the use of their kitchen. We settled down and began to cut the chocolate blocks into chocolate chunks.

And then, we began combining the rest of the ingredients. The recipie called for two and a half cups of flour. We did our best to try to guess how much that was... and we ended up putting in too much flour. In order to make our dough the right consistency, we had to add quite a bit of water. But, the cookies ended up tasting great!

Amy and Sydney with our finished cookies!!!

I get the idea that baking desserts is not very common here. The baking sections of the grocery stores were a bit sparce, and Amy's family was very interested in what we were doing. They wanted to know how we made the cookies and they asked if baking is something that we do for special occassions.

Many of you know that I am a big fan of baking and that we do quite a bit of baking in my house. When I first think about it, it seems strange that baking isn't common here. After all, baking is great! Why would people not want to do that all the time?! On the other hand, I have eaten many delicious things here that I have not eaten or seen before in the US.