Now What?

So I've been pretty busy in the kitchen this week. I don't know if it is because this baby is coming soon or what but wow have we eaten some tasty stuff lately. Nothing too new, so I will just link up to a few recipes I have made.
I wanted to make these lime cookies. But it turns out I had no lime juice. So I made lemon ones instead! I even mixed a capful of lemon juice with the sugar (and spread out to dry a little) for rolling the cookies in. The lemon sugar definitely made the difference! Yum.

I also made cupcakes. I really wanted to try some "healthy" cupcakes that used banana and yogurt but somebody ate my old banana I was saving. So I used this basic chocolate cupcake recipe instead. This is my total go-to recipe. But for a twist... Before you bake them: Melt 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter. Spoon about a teaspoon ontop of each cupcake. Swirl with a toothpick. Sprinkle a few chocolate chips on top. (Peanut butter chips would probably be amazing, but I didn't have any.) Delicious.

Then I made these apple muffins. They are just so good and almost healthy. I'm eating one now.

Then I just had to make Rhuberry Crumble again! It just came out of the oven and smells so good. The only problem... No icing sugar left over to sprinkle on top. How about whipped cream instead?

And one new recipe... I will just give you the link HERE.. Sugar cookie bars! Way easier. Jacob found a container in the cupboard of green sugar crystals and wanted to make "sprinkle cookies"... I said yes without really thinking about how much I HATE rolling out, cutting, icing, and decorating cookies... But how else do you make "sprinkle cookies?" The only changes I made to the original recipe were to half the icing (I'm not an icing lover and this was perfect), I used 2% milk instead of half-and-half, and I used vanilla Greek yogurt instead of sour cream. The boys picked blue for the icing and, of course, lots of green sprinkles. These are delicious.

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Deanna's Best Peanut Butter Cookies

Seriously, these are so good!

Ingredients:

2 cups whole wheat flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 pkg instant chocolate pudding mix

3/4 cup hard margarine (softened)

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

1/4 cup white sugar

1/4 cup brown sugar

2 eggs (lightly beaten)

2 tsps vanilla

2 tbsps honey

2 cups total of your choice- peanut butter chips, chocolate chips, and/or Reese's pieces candy

Now make them! 

Preheat oven to 350.

Cream butters and sugars. Add eggs, vanilla, and honey. Add dry ingredients. Lastly, add your chocolate chips. 

Roll into 1 inch balls. Flatten slightly with a fork.

Bake 10 minutes.

Cool slightly and remove to wire rack. Yum. 

Smushed Cupcakes

... Also known as flourless cupcakes. I ran out of white flour last week. Now I know I could just go to the grocery store or borrow some from a friend or neighbour but I use Sunnyboy flour. This flour is milled nearby and all the organic wheat comes from surrounding fields. And it is great flour. I use it for everything including bread! Anyways, I ordered some that was supposed to come in tomorrow, but it won't be ready for another week... Now what!?!? Next time I will be more organized and order more before I am down to my last cupful.
So the boys and I made these today. Jacob thought it was cool how the magic of the really fast mixer turned the egg whites into "whipped cream."


SMUSHED CUPCAKES

Melt together in a bowl set over a pot with about 1inch of simmering water: 1 cup chocolate chips and 3 tablespoons hard margarine.

Meanwhile... Seperate 3 eggs. Beat egg whites in mixer until peaks form. Add 1/4 cup sugar.

When chocolate is melted, remove from heat. Cool for a couple minutes and mix in egg yolks.

Scoop part of the egg white mixture into the chocolate mixture. Whisk together and carefully fold it all back into the rest of the egg whites.

Divide evenly into 12 cupcake liners.

Bake at 275 for 30 minutes, rotating once.

Cool completely and add a scoop of ice cream.

These cupcakes look normal when you pull them out of the oven, but they sink into themselves as they cool. Also, as an additional note, if you spill the bowl of melted chocolate chips, melted margarine, and egg yolks on yourself, the stains don't come out.