Recent Baking Adventures: Muffins & No Bake Cookies

Baking is a lot of fun guys. It is a great thing to do with your friends, siblings, or anyone you want to bond with because you can create something, and then eat it together later. If you have nothing to talk about while you’re baking, you can always talk about baking.

Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

These muffins are so delicious and they are so easy to make. I made them with the 12-year-old I watched this summer, on my last day of hanging out with her.

Ingredients

  • 2 bananas
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup of brown sugar
  • some honey
  • 1/2 cup of butter (1 stick)
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla
  • 2 1/4 – 2 1/2 cups of flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon of salt
  • peanut butter
  • chocolate chips
  • We didn’t have them at hand, but I’d recommend adding any of the following things too:

  • walnuts
  • oats
  • flax seeds
  • and any other yummy thing you can think of!


    Pretty much,


    you just mix


    everything together.


    Stir it and stuff


    and then


    put it in muffin tins


    until it comes out like this.

    I guess people would recommend mixing all the dry ingredients and wet ingredients separately, and then combining them.

    No Bake Oat Rolled Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

    There are so many ways to describe these cookies. Delicious, heavenly, in my freezer, in my belly, in my mouth, all over my shirt and fingers while I’m writing this, friggen awesome, really good, wow, cookies…

    These are SO EASY AND FUN TO MAKE. Really you just take any cookie recipe and delete the eggs and baking powder/baking soda. You don’t need to bake these anywhere. That’s why they are no bake cookies.

    Here’s the basic recipe:

  • 1 cup of butter (2 sticks)
  • 1 cup of brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup of white sugar
  • 1 tablespoon of vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups of flour
  • little bit of salt
  • 1/4 – 1/2 cup of honey
  • We actually didn’t have enough butter, so we substituted some olive oil and soy milk. After you get the basic recipe mixed all together, then you get to add whatever you want! It just depends how you want your cookies to taste. Here’s what got added to this batch:

  • peanut butter
  • cocoa
  • oats
  • chocolate chips
  • Stir it all together. If you’re adding unsweetened cocoa, you’re going to want to go back and add an equal amount of sugar or honey. You might also need more flour as you add the peanut butter. You want to get it to a consistency at which you can pretty easily mold the dough into balls. When you’ve got everything together, pour oats on a plate, and roll the dough over the oats to add the outer-coating. Oats add a great texture and crunch to these cookies! At the end, just put the cookies in the freezer, and they’ll be all ready and delicious for you to eat in a couple hours or less, depending on how good cold your freezer is.


    These are the ingredients we used!


    Here’s our batter. Yum.


    Oats!


    The first cookie!


    Because these cookies were made No Parent Style, you can put the dough all over your fingers and eat it, you can be cool like Rachel is right here. Not pictured: me being cool too.

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