Silky Soft Dough

 I am going to apologize now for the quality and lack of pictures for this post. We were fresh from the hospital with my father having a heart attack and I was on the phone with various family members for most of this project.

This is silky soft dough. It smells fantastic and is actually a very pleasant texture to touch. It has the consistency of play dough but it sooooo soft. I wanted to just sit there squeezing it, which I did while I was on the phone.

 

Silky Soft Dough

1 cup of cheap dollar store hair conditioner (pick a scent you like!)

2 1/2 cups cornstarch

 

1. Mix together until if forms a dough.

2. Turn out onto lightly corn starched surface and kneed until well mixed and firm.

 

 

Gabee mixed the ingredients together and originally mixed them with his rubber scraper but eventually it was time to get your hands dirty and really squish it together. Ours needed a little bit of tweaking after mixing as it wasn't coming together quite right. It was very dry and crumbly. So a little squirt at a time we added more and more conditioner until it was a nice pliable dough. We added a little too much conditioner and had to add a bit more cornstarch at a time too. If you have a hand held pastry blender this would be a great use of it. I also considered just throwing it in my Kitchen Aid stand mixer and letting it mix but lack of hands and distractions I figured it would keep him busy for a few more minutes while I chatted.

 

 

We turned it out into a cake pan lightly coated with cornstarch as it still seemed a little sticky and I didn't want it on my table and I no longer trust wax paper after the slime incident.We pulled out some sand toys and corn starched the insides of them before filling them with dough. They were a bit tricky to get the dough back out of but with a bit of squeezing and knocking on the table it all came out whole.

 

Gabee made a town with a fort, 2 castles, a church in the middle, and some odd round cars and homes for the aliens. Yeah,  he is most definitely my child.

 

 

He then used his fingers as a giant and smashed down the whole town to start again. Elijah protested this but went unheard by the council. While the pictures don't do it justice it was fun soft and a bit messy. It ended up all over the floor and the chair cushion is now mostly white. So make sure the area it is to be played with in is prepared for some mess.

 

We stored it in a cottage cheese container with a lid and it is not drying out at all. I know because I keep opening it just to poke it and feel it again. I'm sure it would be fine in a ziplock bag with the air pushed out also.

 

For some reason it just now came to me that we could have probably tried to color this with food color. Gel food color would probably be better but I bet it would work. Maybe I will try to color some at a different time.

 

Grand Total = $2