Honey Muffins

My kids love it
when I bake something
for their breakfast
so a fast and easy
recipe to whip up
like these Honey Muffins
were a must do for me

Honey Muffins

• 2 cups All-purpose Flour
• ½ cups Granulated Sugar
• 3 teaspoons Baking Powder
• ½ teaspoons Salt
• 1 Egg
• 1 cup Milk
• ¼ cups Butter, Melted
• ¼ cups Honey

Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. In another bowl, whisk together the egg, milk, butter, and honey. Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients just until combined. Fill muffin tins 3/4 full. Bake at 400ºF for 15-18 minutes.

My kids loved these
and loved the ease of
throwing them together

Give them a try
I plan to add Carob
when I make them next

No Rise Cinnamon Rolls

These are super fast
and yummy
I easily make them
for breakfast
my boy asks me
once a week for them

Dough
2 cups Flour
(you can use 1/2 white and 1/2 whole wheat)
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup butter
(I use frozen and shred it)
3/4 to 1 cup of milk

Mix together dry
add the butter
(use a pastry blender if you don't use frozen)

add milk until a bit sticky

put on a floured surface

roll out into a rough square
add a little extra flour if you need to

Filling
Butter
brown sugar
cinnamon

I use my hands
to spread the butter

then add the cinnamon

then add and pat down brown sugar

Roll up dough
once the filling is how you like

slice into about 10 rolls
(the picture is a double recipe)

use a pan with sides (9x13)
bake at 375 for 25 mins

SO SO YUM!
SO SO EASY
a fight even broke out
over the leftovers

The Best Ever Frosting

I wouldn't say
that this is my
favorite type of frosting
I prefer a cream cheese frosting

However
this frosting is
really very yummy
even if you get it
all over your face

The Best Ever Frosting

5 Tablespoons Flour
1 cup Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 cup Butter
1 cup Granulated Sugar (not Powdered Sugar!)

In a small saucepan
whisk flour into milk
and heat, stirring constantly
until it thickens


You want it to be very thick
thicker than cake mix
more like a brownie mix is
Remove from heat
let it cool to room temperature
It must be completely cool
before you use it in the next step
Stir in vanilla.


While the mixture is cooling
cream the butter and sugar together
until light and fluffy
You don’t want any sugar graininess left


Then add the completely
cooled milk/flour/vanilla mixture


beat the living daylights out of it
If it looks separated
you haven’t beaten it enough!
Beat it until it all combines
and resembles whipped cream.
you can add food coloring
at this point also


then put the yummy frosting
onto the cupcakes
and let the kids decorate


then let them dig in
and enjoy

Chocolate Cupcakes

I normally wouldn't
pick a recipe with
so much sugar
but for my girly's birthday
why not!

The Best Chocolate Cupcakes
click on the link
for the original recipe

2 cups Flour
2 cups Sugar
¼ teaspoons Salt
4 Tablespoons (heaping) Cocoa
1 cup Butter
1 cup Boiling Water
½ cups Buttermilk
2 whole Beaten Eggs
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Vanilla

In a mixing bowl
combine flour, sugar, and salt


In a saucepan, melt butter
add cocoa
stir together
add boiling water
allow mixture to boil for 30 seconds
then turn off heat


Pour over flour mixture


and stir lightly to cool


In a measuring cup
pour the buttermilk
and add beaten eggs
baking soda and vanilla


Stir buttermilk mixture into butter/chocolate mixture


put cupcake wrappers
in the muffin tins
this made 1 1/2 dozen cupcakes
be sure to let
the birthday girl
lick the spoon after


bake at 350
for 20 minutes
or until a toothpick
inserted comes out clean
then you can make a craft
while they cool


after these cooled
we topped them with
The Best Frosting Ever
I'll post that tomorrow
but these cupcakes
were wonderful
certainly one of
the best I've made

Whole Wheat Zucchini and Carrot Muffins

I found the recipe
on the Tasty Kitchen Site
I changed it a bit
and we are enjoying the
yummy muffins

Whole Wheat Zucchini and Carrot Muffins

⅓ cup Rolled Oats
2 cups Whole Wheat Flour
⅓ cups Brown Sugar
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
¼ teaspoons Baking Soda
½ teaspoons Salt
1-½ teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
1 1/2 cups Grated Zucchini
1 1/2 cups Grated Carrot
1 cup Buttermilk
2 whole Eggs
¼ cups Butter, Melted

Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Stir together all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl


Fold in the grated zucchini and mix until it is well coated with the dry ingredients




In a small bowl whisk together the eggs, buttermilk and melted butter


Fold into dry ingredients stirring just until combined


Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups


Bake about 20 minutes

The original recipe
calls for a struesel topping
I didn't add this
but I would next time
these muffins are not sweet
I normally would cut
the amount of sugar
but I didn't this time
as it was such a small amount already
the struesel would add
a touch of sweetness
these were good
even without the sweetness


in other news
we added to our tribe
my sister gave us
a little fish tank
so the kids each
have a little gold fish
my little man
named his Dinosaur
my little girly
named hers fish
little Lily
she likes them


I also got a fish
Simon
he's in solitary
he should have been okay
with the gold fish
but he must have decided
their fins were too pretty
so he attacked them - a lot
here is little Lily
checking him out

Granola Cookies with Carob

Cookies
YUM
everyone enjoys
a good cookie
this one caught my eye

Granola Cookies
this recipe is with my change ups
click on the above link
for the original recipe
1 cup Butter
3/4 cup Granulated Sugar
3/4 cup Brown Sugar
2 teaspoons Vanilla
2 whole Eggs
2 cups Whole Wheat Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
½ teaspoons Baking Soda
2 cups Granola, Crushed
1 cup Organic Rice Puff Cereal
3/4 cup Malted Carob

Preheat oven to 350F.

Using your mixer, cream butter. Add sugars and continue to cream. Add vanilla, beat until smooth and creamy


Add one egg at a time, mix on medium speed for 1-2 minutes


remind your helper it's not yet time
to like the bowl


Mix flour, baking powder, and baking soda together in separate bowl, then gradually add dry ingredients to the butter mixture until combined.


Add in granola,rice cereal, malted carob chips. This will get thick and hard to stir; make sure you take the time to incorporated these add-ins well. Feel free to add more nuts or dried fruits.


At this point
your helper can
have the mixer paddle


I found it easiest
to just use my hands
to put the cookies
on the cookie sheets
if you are using metal cookie sheets
line them with parchment paper
I make my cookies
on the smaller side
as smaller people
will be eating them
make sure you flatten
the cookie dough


these cookies
depending on the type
of cookie sheet
took about 15 - 20 minutes to bake
and tasted soooo GOOD


my kids have been
eating them up
and they were
easy and fast
just my style