New Treats

I love to cook. I love trying new things. But I'm definitely of the easier and faster is better variety. I will spend time slicing vegetables and thanks to my crockpot I do in fact create my own chicken stock once in a while. I also just buy the canned chicken stock. It's fine.

But I hate baking! I don't have the patience to measure out perfect ingredients (for baking, it has to be just about right) and I don't have to patience to check the over 150 times to make sure my stuff is done without being overdone.

Enter egg allergy. I'd much rather pay $6 for a box of mini muffins than make my own. However, Little Monster can't have muffins. And I'm refusing to let egg-ridden foods just be eaten (and probably dropped) around my house and find their way into my allergy-full child. So, I attempted to make my own egg-free muffins yesterday!

They were SUPER easy. It was zest from 2 lemons, 2 cups of unbleached all purpose flour, 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt mixed together in a bowl. In a separate bowl, I combined 3/4 cup of sugar, 1 cup of milk (if you add soy milk, you can make this a vegan muffin), 1/3 cup of oil, and 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar. Once you mix it well enough for the sugar to dissolve, you combine the wet and dry ingredients together, mixing until just combined. I folded in some frozen blueberries and using my pampered chef medium size scoop, I put them in some muffin tins and 22 minutes later at 375 degrees, out of the oven came some awesome egg-free muffins - that Little Monster devoured! Dad said they were just okay, but he's a sweets-loving fool, so the fact that he even ate a part of a muffin was encouraging. Tiny Dancer and I loved them too and my picky sister even liked them!

While my sister was over, she whipped up some rice krispy treats for us, because Little Monster loves them and can have them. I'll probably have to keep these handy for any birthday parties we go to. She can't have regular cake or ice cream, so we'll have to keep our own treats ready for her so she's not missing entirely out on everything fun.

Now that I just posted about these muffins, I'm taking a break to go enjoy one! :)