My 1st pain d'epices was messed up and I didn't even know!

About a month ago, I made a pain d'epices for the first time. Well it wasn't until I made another one a couple of days ago that I realized I had completely messed it up the first time! I forgot to add a whole entire cup of water to the batter before adding the dry ingredients!

This time, with the water, the pain d'epice was much more moist and flavorful. Yum!

Here I was putting the dry ingredietns together and I thought it looked pretty:

And the result:

And I also wanted to show my new kitchen gadget, a bread keeper. Love it! It's expendable and has a cuting board.