Rain Drenched Sunday!

Sunday featured quite the amount of rain!  It was sprinkling when I walked the boys in the early morning.  While sitting in church, I turned to Brad to comment on the noise of the storm outside.  Never did it occur to me, we had no rain gear with us. What were we thinking? So there we were at the conclusion of the church service with no rain gear and it's coming down good.  At first glance, I thought it was no big deal.  I used to live in Seattle, rain is nothing. After fully stepping out, away from the overhang of the church building I quickly realized this was no sprinkle, this was no drizzle either. 

Brad grabbed my hand as we made a quick dash to the car.  By the time we got to the car, we were soaked.  Drenched! During our mad dash to our car we had left my in-laws in our dust as they were smart enough to bring an umbrella.  We then called them on the phone to discuss after church plans since standing in the parking lot to do that was not an option.

After getting home I felt like baking.  I baked and baked.  I bake quite frequently on Sunday afternoons when there's no football.  It's a good time to leisurely try out new things in the kitchen. 

I started with muffins.  I made some mixed berry muffins.  A total experiment!  They turned out quite well.  I've never tried putting raspberries in muffins.  I actually cooked them first. I threw in blueberries(not cooked) then cooked raspberries to go in the muffins too.  Once the raspberries cooled a bit I swirled them on top of the blueberry muffin batter before popping them in the oven. I'm not sure where I get some of these ideas from!  There's numerous Sundays my poor husband has to deal with being told to open up as I shove a piece of muffin or cookie or whatever experiment I've worked on into his mouth.  He's a good guinea pig! 

After the muffins were done I turned my attention to cookies.  I recently bought a new pan that I thought would be perfect to make jumbo cookies.  It's not actually designed for cookies but I was sure I could make it work.  After the 2nd group of cookies went in the oven I figured out how to best use my new pan to accomplish my jumbo cookies.  I can hardly wait to serve up some jumbo cookies to my nephew the next time he comes over.  I had baking jumbo cookies for my nephew in mind when I found and bought the pan!  I finished my baking afternoon off with a pie then cooked us dinner.  I have been wanting pie for weeks now. It was finally time to make one!  I chose to do something kind of weird with that one too.  I did my cheesecake pie with a few additions.  I mixed in cinnamon apples, toffee bits, and pecans. Simon totally approved of the pecans as he hung out to get one or two. We didn't cut into the pie until tonight(Monday night), it was quite good. I'd make it again! Fun afternoon of baking for me!