Oh dear....

Due to a series of unfortunate events, we (Jungle boy and farm princess) have been without our own kitchen for close to two years. Well, this is not entirely true. We've had our own kitchen for the last six months, but today was the first day in those six months that I was brave enough to try my hand at baking. Now, baking is something I used to love. Brownies, cookies, bread. Loved it. But go without doing something for two years and its a bit....daunting to jump back in to. Jungle boy and I went to Wal-mart (oh beautiful Wal-mart) on my lunch break today and got necessary items to bake. Flour, sugar, baking soda and so on. All that good stuff. We even bought some new..... cookware? Cookie sheets, cake pans, those kind of things. So, after getting off work today (early even!) I decided I owed it to Jungle boy to cook him some delicious brownies (not THOSE kind of delicious brownies!)  Since we bought new Hershey chocolate powder I decided to throw out our old one (since who knows how old it really was!) and THIS is what happened!!!

That's right! Someone (ok, it was probably me, I'll admit it!) didn't put the lid on the old Hershey's container and it spilled EVERYWHERE!! It took me forever to clean up that mess. But I got it cleaned up.  Then I went back to mixing my brownies (all right, really I started mixing the brownies!) Then I remembered I had no electric mixer. Great, now its pioneer style mixing brownies. Now these brownies are THICK!!! So, after dropping the bowl of melted butter in to the bigger bowl and spilling sugar all over the counter, I finally got in to the rhythm of baking, then I looked down at my shirt and realized it was COVERED in Hershey powder. "Wait," I said to myself. "I believe I have an apron my dear mom made me!" This is what it looks like:

So, I finally have my apron on, and all the ingredients in the brownies and I'm mixing and mixing and mixing (who knew baking was such a work out?)! So I decide the brownies are mixed good enough, because no one really cares if all the flour is properly mixed in right? At least I am hoping Jungle boy won't and since he will be the only one besides me eating these, its fine...... So I start putting the brownies in to the cake pan and then I realize that I missed just one small ingredient

Now, I apologize for the blurriness in the picture, but that's as good as I could get, folks! So I ponder this question: Do these brownies really need vanilla? And because the brownie mix is already mostly in the pan I decide no. These brownies do not actually really need vanilla. So, now the question is how do they taste with out vanilla? I will let you know, but in the mean time, here is the state of my kitchen post brownie disaster!

And post clean up with the brownies

The verdict is, for those who like less sweet more like dark chocolate brownies, leave the vanilla out. They are still edible, good even!!



And yes I do lick the mixing utensils! What about you? Yay or Nay?