Baking with Grandma

My parents are part of a group that does country dancing every Friday night. The group rents out the local women's center and then all the participants bring snacks to share. So, Grandma decided Garytt should help her make a Tastefully Simple key lime cheese ball to take with them the Friday before Easter...

Here they are getting all the ingredients out and Grandma is actually reading the instructions...



The instructions for the cheese ball actually only call for cream cheese...not whipped cream...but they already poured the mix into the whipped cream...oops!



So, instead of a cheese ball, they decided they would make it into a key lime pie. Garytt worked hard to stir the mix into the whipped cream!



As you can see, the stool Garytt was standing on didn't make him tall enough to really see what he was doing. So, we pulled over a chair for him to stand on instead...now he could really get down to business! (They also put the whipped cream mixture in a bigger bowl so there was room to stir in the cream cheese.)





Then Grandma decided that it would be fun to put some food coloring in the mixture to make it green. Garytt thought that was awesome!



They worked hard to get all the green food coloring mixed in!





The next step was to put the mixture into a pie crust.



Busy scooping!





Grandma showed Garytt how to smooth out the top of the pie...he took that step very seriously...can you see the concentration!



Next it was time to pour the graham cracker crumbs on the top.



The pie is complete!



Then Grandma showed Garytt the best part of baking...licking the spoon!



At first, Garytt wasn't too sure he wanted to lick his spoon...



Then he realized how good it was!







Garytt did a great job! And he didn't even get as messy as I thought he would!