Thursday, January 17, 2008

Infomercial at it's best

Okay, here is the story. On the way home from picking up Thaddeus and Jackie from the airport, I was telling Jackie a story about Luke. I was explaining how Christmas is pretty easy for my kiddos right now because they don't really know how to ask for anything. They don't see a commercial on TV and then ask for that toy, they hadn't really put it together yet--an advertisers worst nightmare. Well THAT morning I came into the living room and Luke was watching an infomercial about the Pancake Puff. He was explaining to me that we needed one because they put chocolate in there. I said "Okay Luke." He kept insisting "Mom, don't you get it?! There's chocolate in there. We need one of these." Well Aunt Jackie got a big kick out of this story. She had actually seen one of these wonders at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Aunt Jackie decided on that fateful night that Santa just had to get one of these for Luke Thomas. And he did. You should have been there to hear Luke when he opened his present from Mr. C. "It's a Pancake Puff. There is chocolate in there. And it's perfect because you can have it for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a snack." Yes, my boy who never forgets anything started to monologue the commercial for us. We were dying laughing, I thought my Mom was going to drop Josie on the floor she was laughing so hard! Luke was so sincere about it all. He was thrilled! So come Friday morning it was time to make our much awaited puffs. There are lots of pictures, but that's because this was too much fun!
The mixing begins:

My brother is such a goof, gotta love him! We baked the puffs though the directions (SERIOUSLY) do not tell you how long or at what temperature. "In medium heat cook until done" Yeah, thanks for the help. It was time for Luke to inject the chocolate:This turned out harder then it seemed so Aunt Jackie started to help:

Afterwards it was time to use the included wooden skewer-thingys to get out the puffs. Just look at Thad's face, that will tell you everything about how that went!

But in the end Luke was so proud of his puffs. They actually didn't taste bad either. Sadly though, the pancake puff didn't really survive. We took care of it how they suggested and it rusted. It's days might be numbered. But oh the fun we had that Friday afternoon!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Logan is not allowed to know that you had one...he saw that commercial and has wanted one so bad for Christmas. I had to find other ways to get around it. Hopefully he doesn't seem the commercial again or he will begin his asking.
Glad you had fun while it lasted :)

Anonymous said...

guess what we had for breakfast this morning - Pancakes
guess what Logan wanted for breakfast this morning after learning that I was making pancakes - that's right - Pancake puffs
The boy does not forget :)