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Happy lil ❤’s are baking #13

What did you bake or cook with your kids this week?

Below is a linky list so you can join in the fun and start sharing your adventures in the kitchen with your kids! Family favourites, new recipes, cultural or traditional recipes – you name it, we’d like to read about them, and if you include the details, try them out 🙂

 Master D and I baked pumpkin muffins this week!
We used a recipe from the Muffin Bible, with our own variations:
2 tbsp butter
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 cups self raising flour
cinnamon to taste
nutmeg to taste
1 cup pumpkin (half a cup will do)
Splash of milk
Cinnamon sugar

Get your muffin tray ready and heat the oven to 180°C (around 350°F).
Cream butter and sugar, before adding the egg. 

 Add remaining ingredients, with milk last so you can adjust to the right consistency.

Spoon your muffin batter into the muffin tray and top with cinnamon sugar.  
~ sing a little song about the muffin man ~
Bake for around 20 minutes

These muffins were tasty, but denser than our usual muffins. 
Next time we will have to make sure to mash the pumpkin before adding it. 
And, since we are in pumpkin season here, does anyone have a great pumpkin pie recipe that we could try?

We can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to in the kitchen with your kids!

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Happy baking, Kelly

March 29, 2012 by

Happy lil ❤’s are baking #12

What did you bake or cook with your little ones this week? Or, if you don’t have anything new we’d love to see something from your archives 😉

Below is a linky list to join in the fun and start sharing what you bake or cook with your children, so we can inspire each other. Family favourites, new recipes, traditional or cultural recipes – you name it, we’d like to read about them and if you include the details, try them out 🙂

We’ve been making a birthday cake for Husband of Mine. Usually he is the birthday cake maker since icing is my nemisis (seriously, we don’t get along at all). 
Master D chose a treasure island cake for his dad. He spent ages trying to decide which cake was right 😉 And here it is!
(sorry I had to use my phone to take the photo)
And, just for comparision sakes, here is the cake Husband of Mine made for Master D’s last birthday… (mmm, I guess you can sort-of see the difference?!)
~ Peter Pan on Wendy’s Roof ~
For the treasure island brownie cake we used:
170g butter
330g sugar
vanilla to tast (so a hefty lug from Master D)
3 eggs
85g flour
50g cocoa
pinch salt

Start by melting the butter. 
While the butter melts add everything else to a mixer. Spill some flour along the way because you are holding your 9 month old at the same time 😉 Then pour the butter in too. Mix!

 Pour the mix into a greased baking dish. Bake for about 45 minutes (or until it passes the knife in the middle test) at 180°C (around 350°F).
 
 Test the cake batter, just to be sure it will be good enough for your dad *smile*

Once cooled, dig holes to hide treasure! Then decorate beautifully *cough*…. and ta, da!

~ A treasure island complete with dinosaurs ~
Mmmmm, yum!

We can’t wait to see what you’ve been baking!


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Happy baking, Kelly
 

March 22, 2012 by