Since she's a healthy, ingredient-reader kind of girl, we baked oatmeal chocolate chip muffins and decorated them with a little more melted dark chocolate -- spelling out her name with one letter on top of each muffin:
Our freshly-pressed red maple and yellow oak leaves gave our tray a festive, fun, fall feeling. :-)
And, of course, my little artist decorated a rainbow-colored leaf card to go along with our treats!
Here's the recipe I used forOatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins:
Ingredients:1 egg
1 c buttermilk
1/3 cup oil/applesauce
1 t vanilla
1 c whole wheat flour
1/2 t salt
1/2 t soda
1 t baking powder
1 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup brown sugar
~ 6 oz chocolate chips
In one bowl mix egg, buttermilk, oil and vanilla with fork. Set aside.
In another bowl mix flour, salt, soda, baking powder, oatmeal and brown sugar by hand.
Stir liquid mixture into dry ingredients.
Mix until blended.
Stir in chocolate chips.
Fill greased muffin cups and bake at 350 degrees for 15 - 20 minutes.
Makes 12 muffins.
(Recipe adapted from my great friend Maralyn Mathias's cookbook Around the World with Annie.)
6 comments:
Those leaves look lovely (how's that for alliteration?) as a tray liner. So bright and beautiful, I bet that made Jennifer's day. :)
These muffins look wonderful! How much vanilla?
Oh - great catch and yes, they are good! That's 1 teaspoon vanilla! Thanks! :-)
Love the alliteration Molly! I have quite a stack of pressed leaves and a few more projects for them as well!
This is such a cute idea! We'll have to make some soon!
Yum! These look great! And I love the idea of using leaves to line the tray. Beautiful!
Happy SITS Saturday Sharefest!
Oh yummy and how thoughtful! You are teaching your daughter a wonderful thing by having her be a part of cheering up a friend. Love the recipe and leaf idea. Truly inspiring to me. :)
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