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Cookies for Breakfast in a Jar

December 17, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 6 Comments

Cookies for Breakfast in a jar Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes

2/3 c brown sugar, packed
1 t baking soda
¾ t baking powder
1 c all purpose flour
¾ c whole wheat flour
3 c multi grain cereal
½ cup dried blueberries
½ cup dried cranberries
½ cup raisins

Layer all ingredients in a mason jar. Close jar tightly and cover with fabric and ribbon. Affix with the following instructions.

1 jar cookies for breakfast gift mix
½ c butter room temperature
2 eggs beaten

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In the bowl of an electric mixer beat together butter and eggs until smooth. Add ingredients in jar. Mix until well combined.
With your hands form batter into large golf ball sized balls and place on a greased cookie sheet. Press down on each ball with a spoon to flatten it slightly. Place cookies in the oven and bake for 12 – 15 minutes. Let stand 1 minute then transfer to cooling rack. Enjoy these warm with a glass of milk or leave out for Santa. Happy Holidays!

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Fall Faves – Pumpkin Bread

October 24, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 9 Comments

You all know how we love the pumpkin.

Pumpkin Pie.

Pumpkin Pancakes.

Pumpkin Coffee.

Pumpkin Anything.

Nothing makes the boys happier than getting off the bus…

To a batch of delicious warm pumpkin bread.

baking with kids Fall Faves Pumpkin Bread

WHAT YOU NEED:

1 15 ounce can pumpkin puree

4 eggs

1 c vegetable oil

2/3 c water

3 c sugar

1 c brown sugar (divided)

3 1/2 c flour

2 t baking soda

1 t baking powder

1 1/2 t salt

1 t ground cinnamon

1 t ground nutmeg

1/2 t ground cloves

1/4 t ground ginger

1/2 t ground allspice

Optional:

chocolate chips

walnuts

pumpkin seeds

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

In a large bowl combine pumpkin, eggs, vegetable oil, water, sugar and 1/2 cup brown sugar.  Mix until blended.

In another bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger and allspice.  Mix until well combined.  Pour dry ingredients slowly into wet ingredients and mix until well combined.

Add in your desired mix ins.  We usually do one with walnuts and one with chocolate chips.

Pour batter into 2 greased loaf pans.  Sprinkle tops with remaining brown sugar.

baking with kids Fall Faves Pumpkin Bread

Bake on 350 for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

 

 

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Pumpkin Pancakes

October 12, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 7 Comments

As you know…

We’re kind of obsessed with pancakes around here.

We make them pretty much all.the.time.

But this glorious time of year reminds me to switch things up a bit.

Check out these bad boys.

breakfasts Pumpkin Pancakes

WHAT YOU NEED:

1 ¾ c  All Purpose Flourbreakfasts Pumpkin Pancakes

3  1/2 t  Baking Powder

¾ t        Kosher salt

3/4 t     cinnamon

1/2 t     all spice

1/2 t    ground nutmeg

3 T         Granulated sugarbreakfasts Pumpkin Pancakes

1 1/2  c  Milk

1 large    Egg

1 t            Real Vanilla Extract

3/4 can real pumpkin puree

WHAT TO DO:

In a medium size bowl combine the dry ingredients.  Make a well in the center and add in the egg, milk, and vanilla extract.  Mix until smooth.

breakfasts Pumpkin Pancakes

Fold in pumpkin puree being sure not to overmix, this will toughen the pancakes.  Let your batter rest for 15 minutes before you cook them.

breakfasts Pumpkin Pancakes

Preheat your frying pan to medium heat.  You’ll know it’s hot enough when a drop of water skips along the surface.  Melt a bit of butter on the pan.

Using a ladle drop about 1/3 cup batter onto your buttered pan for each pancake.  When you see bubbles all over the top of the pancake, it’s time to flip.  Flip only once and don’t press down on your pancake or they won’t be light and fluffy!

breakfasts Pumpkin Pancakes

When the second side is browned pull them off and keep them warm under some tinfoil on a plate.

Top with butter and syrup or sprinkle with powdered sugar.

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Apple Week – Dutch Babies with warm apples

October 7, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 5 Comments

So you all know how much we looooove our pancakes around here.

We have them pretty much…

Every.

Single.

Weekend.

But sometimes you want to switch up your pancake just a bit.

Enter the Dutch Babies!

baking with kids Apple Week Dutch Babies with warm apples

Want to know the boys favorite part?

They each get their own little ramekin made special just for them!

WHAT YOU NEED:

4 T butter

4 eggs

1 c. milk

1 c. flour

¼ sugar

1 t. vanilla

for the apple topping:

2 granny smith apple, peeled, cored, and sliced

1 t butter

1/4 t salt

1/4 t cinammon

1 T sugar

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Combine eggs, milk, flour, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl and whisk well.

Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat.

When butter has melted pour equally into small ramekins and swish butter around in the bottom of each to coat.  (If you don’t have ramekins just batter into skillet then transfer into oven.)  Place ramekins on a baking sheet and put into the oven.

Bake for 25 minutes.  Sides will be golden brown and puffy.

baking with kids Apple Week Dutch Babies with warm apples

Meanwhile melt remaining butter over medium high heat.  Toss in apples, sugar, salt and cinammon.  Allow to cook until apples are nice and soft and caramelized.

baking with kids Apple Week Dutch Babies with warm apples

Remove dutch babies from oven and serve immediately.  Top with powdered sugar and apples.

 

 

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Blueberry scones with blueberry butter

July 29, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 10 Comments

I love fresh scones.

But I’m not a baker…

So I rarely make them.

But this is a relatively easy recipe to get yummy scones on the table on a weekend morning.

baking with kids Blueberry scones with blueberry butter

WHAT YOU NEED:

2 cups all purpose flour

1 T baking powder

1 t salt

1/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup unsalted butter, very cold, cut into chunks

3/4 cup cream

1 egg

1 pint blueberries (locally grown)

2 T sugar in the raw

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.

In your food processor bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.  Pulse quickly to combine.  Add cold butter and pulse quickly to cut butter in until it looks like coarse sand.

In a separate large bowl combine cream and egg.  Mix well.  Pour off just a bit into a small bowl then pour the flour mixture in.  Stir a bit just to combine.  Fold in your blueberries very gently being careful not to burst them.

Now comes the creative part…

You can turn out your dough and form into a large square or circle and cut them into traditional triangles or you can do what I do and just drop them into circles on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Using a pastry brush, brush the tops of the scones with the reserved cream/egg mixture and sprinkle with raw sugar.

Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Serve with Blueberry Butter.

 

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Fruit Week – Groovy Smoothies

June 24, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 4 Comments

This has to be one of Brady’s favorite things in the world!

He LOVES to make and drink the smoothies!

breakfasts Fruit Week Groovy Smoothies

And if he didn’t love it enough before.

Now I have to listen to this bunch…

breakfasts Fruit Week Groovy Smoothies

Do these kids haunt you too?

It’s the Fresh Beat Band and they like to hang out at the Groovy Smoothie and drink fruity concoctions.

And if that’s not enough….

breakfasts Fruit Week Groovy Smoothies

That iCarly crew loves the fruity smoothies too.

So with the help of these shows…all my kids are into the smoothies!

Granted Brady loves fruit all kinds of ways but this is a treat for him.

And since he’s still milking the tonsil thing I’ve been making a bunch of these bad boys.

Now I’m all for making these with all those fresh berries that you can get at your local farms this time of year.

But I think smoothies are better with Frozen Berries!

That way I don’t have to use ice cubes to make them all nice and frothy!

FYI – those frozen berries work great for frozen margaritas too!

Just saying…

It is Friday after all…

breakfasts Fruit Week Groovy Smoothies

STRAWBERRY SMOOTHIES

WHAT YOU NEED:

1 cup frozen organic strawberries (or blackberries or any other kind of frozen fruit you have)

1 cup frozen organic blueberries

1 cup organic skim milk

1 cup organic low fat vanilla yogurt

2 T honey

1 t flax seed oil (this I just toss in because it’s just so darn good for you!)

WHAT TO DO:

Combine all of the ingredients in a blender.  Blend on high for a minute or until smooth and creamy.  Enjoy.

Feel free to try any combo of fruit you have.  Bananas would make a great addition!  Mango, pineapple, raspberry!

If you don’t have frozen fruit, just add a bunch of ice cubes to make it thick and smooth.

If you have picky eaters this is a great way to get some fruit into them.  Who doesn’t love a smoothie?

And if you want…this is a fantastic place to add in a bit of frozen spinach for a little extra healthy punch.


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