Muffin-tin cookies
Part of the reason why I didn’t post at all this week is because I have a new job as a special education teacher. The classroom that I took over on Monday has students with moderate to severe disabilities and many of the students are autistic. Since I love to cook and I love to share food with people, I decided that it would be great to celebrate our last day of the week by making cookies.
Bless my boss for putting a giant tub of cookie dough in the fridge. Our classroom has a kitchen plus a regular classroom. We gathered in the kitchen during 6th period and made cookies. I decided that the easiest way for the students to participate would be for each student to roll a bit of cookie dough between their palms and then to place this ball of dough in a muffin tin.
Muffin tins make great catch-all baking pans. It gives cookies a uniform shape plus you can spray the muffin tin with a little cooking spray and the cookies are easy to remove. In my case, we didn’t have any cooking spray so we just loosened each cookie and pried them out. They came out a bit crumbly, but, hey, they tasted delicious anyway.
Get out those muffin tins because they’re great for baking cookies when you want the kids to help and they make some great, round cookies. Oh sugar…


May 14th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Maybe if you keep Nicholas in sugar I won’t have to fill my candy jar so often. Good plan!!!