The one disappointing thing about baking here in Germany is that it never quite tastes the same as it does at home. The ingredients might be the same but the quality is different. Its neither good nor bad, as they tasted delicious, it’s just different and cooking times need to be altered so that you don’t over bake the cookies and brown up the bottoms a little too much! The one ingredient that I couldn’t find in the grocery store was light corn syrup so I had to make a substitution with beet syrup....to my delight it gave the butter squares a richer flavour and I rather enjoyed them. I think everyone else did too because they were eaten pretty fast!
We embarked on making 4 types of cookies. Michele and Megan did two of them and I was in charge of two of them.
The sugar cookies, made without cookie cutters and with fine ground sugar.
Michele and Megan's finished product
It was a fun afternoon even involving multiple flour fights, many phone calls home to try and figure out how bake cookies when you run out of flour and a lot of eating of icing and dough!!
After our afternoon we got ready to head to watch Megan’s boyfriend Jon play. The Schwenningen Wild Wings were having a rough go of it recently and didn’t start this game so hot either. They went down early but fought back early in the second period. The third period didn’t start so well for them either....again they went down, fought back and then went down again on a bogus penalty shot call. The game was all but over with 3 minutes left and a score of 6-4 for the visitors when something miraculous happened. They somehow turned the game around and were fore checking hard and cycling the puck well. Then it happened they scored with the goalie pulled with about 48 seconds left in the game. The fans that had started to leave their seats frantically ran back to their seats. Not 10 seconds later and before the public address announcer had even announced the first goal they won the opening face off and scored a goal that was identical to the previous goal. The fans began running back to their seats and the building had never been so loud.
You just had a feeling that they were going to win and everyone in the building could feel it too! Sure enough it happened about 2 minutes into overtime a defense man drove down the right boards and took it straight to the net putting the puck top shelf over the goalies shoulder.......and the crowd went crazy! Two goals in 10 or so seconds and the overtime winner early in the extra period, I had never seen anything like that it was amazing! The funniest part may have been after the game. After each victory the fans are thanked by the team with a cheer, except this time the Wild Wings decided to dance for the fans to show their thanks and appreciation. It was quite the sight, 20 hockey players dancing inside the blue zone to the hamster song! It brought a smile to my face and many others!
Megan and Michele doing the scarf song after the victory!After a busy day it was nice to go home and eat some more cookies.....not that I hadn’t a few already that afternoon!
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