Baking with Ben

Ben loves to help me in the kitchen!  This week we enjoyed making cupcakes together for the church dinner today.  He was so proud of himself for getting to help while Nico was napping!  Please excuse the messes in the pictures-Ben and I are messy cooks!  And I apologize for the less than wonderful quality of pictures-it is a challenge to take the pictures and make sure the whole bowl of batter doesn't end up on the floor at the same time!

Putting the cupcake liners in the pan

Unwrapping the chocolate and butter

Stirring in the sugar (after Mommy melted the chocolate and butter, of course!)

Helping with the eggs

Adding the flour

Putting the Reese's Cups in the middle

Baking (please ignore the disgusting oven!!)

Yummy!

An unfortunate casualty of having a 2 year old cook!

After this we made a whipped peanut butter icing and used a decorator bag to ice the cupcakes.  Then Ben put on a mini Reese's Cup for decoration.  They were yummy!