I woke up this morning with my 3 year old DEMANDING that I bake cookies with him so that "we can share them".. he was basically shoving the recipe that he wanted in my face. He liked them because the cookies looked like flowers.

Once the brain hamster got back on the treadmill, and my eyes could focus, I had a look at the cookbook and told him that I don't really know how to make cookies.. I could hear Monica in the background saying "You'll have to make them.. I have to go to work."

So that was that.. I had an overenthusiastic toddler with HIGH expectations that cookies were going to be made.. and pronto.

I had another look at the recipe and thought, this isn't too bad. I think I can do all the measuring and mixing in the Thermo. I was fairly certain at that stage that I would not completely trash the kitchen or disappoint my pint sized cookie-monster.

We didn't have Jasmine tea leaves.. but we had Chamomile Teabags. We didn't have any lemons left, but I had an orange and some citric acid in the cupboard. We didn't have any caster sugar.. but we never do, because Monica always blitzes her own from raw sugar as she needs it.

My son sat on the bench helping me put the ingredients in the bowl. We blitzed the sugar and mixed the cookie dough before putting it in the fridge. However, because we used Nutalex instead of butter the mixture didn't harden enough to use cookie cutters. So we made Muffin Cookies.. MOOKIES.

They turned out well.. my toddler was a little disappointed that there was no icing.. and they did not look like the picture, but when he ate one, he was content.

Later I found out that he had sneakily eaten half the batch on his own. 

I told my wife that the Thermomix made it easy to make the Mookies. Her response was basically telling me off for making her wait over a year before helping fund her first Thermomix (4 years ago!). So yeah.. no good deed goes unpunished.

If you are a man and reading this.. buy a Thermomix. Not because it will make your wife happy, but because it is a massive kitchen upgrade for the family to benefit from.