Week 18: May 27, 2013

Our weekends in May were filled with sickness, parties, recitals and parades.  We are finally back on track. This past Friday our doctor recommended that we all start eating a gluten free diet for individual health reasons.  So this weekend we made Betty Crocker's gluten free brownies and banana Anna frozen ice cream.  The brownies were better than the ones we made a few weeks ago and the recipe was very simple to make.  Rapunzel saw a banana ice cream recipe on the Disney channel where you cut bananas, freeze them and then blend them until they look like ice cream.  She cut and froze the bananas herself.  Two successful gluten free treats!

Week 17: April 28, 2013

Hogson Mill Whole Wheat Gingerbread Mix
Good thing I read the recipe at breakfast because the dough had to be chilled for 2 hours.  I mixed it before church.  Bubble G kept eating the dough I was rolling out, so we gave him a yogurt to eat. He made a big mess with that but, he stopped eating dough. Rapunzel decided that we should make Spring shapes. Then she sang Jiggle Bells the whole time we rolled out the dough.  After cleaning everyone and everything up, Rapunzel added decorations to the cookies with gel icing.  The kids loved the cookies.

Week 16: April 19, 2013

Puppy Chow and S'more Bits
So we had a day off of school due to flooding.  Perfect time to bake. Rapunzel put her tent up and what goes with camping? S'mores.  The s'more bits have graham cracker pieces at the bottom and melted marshmellows with chocolate on top.  The kids loved licking the spoons best.  Puppy chow was for Bubble G.  We had a box of rice cereal no one was eating so why not. Lots of chocolate.  Yum!

Week 15: April 13, 2013

Pamela's chocolate brownie mix
Gluten and dairy free
Rapunzel helped mix the batter.  Very easy dump, mix and pour recipe.  Both kids liked the brownies.  They asked for seconds.  The brownie was soft and a little gritty compared to a flour brownie.

Week 14: April 6, 2013

Chocolate chip cookies with daddy.  The kids helped very little in the making of these cookies.  We all enjoyed eating the cookies, especially me because chocolate chip cookies are my favorite.

Week 13: March 30, 2013

Easter cinnamon rolls from a box mix. By the time the cinnamon rolls were ready for the oven we had become flour monsters.  The kids enjoyed kneading the dough. This event brought back memories of helping my grandma knead church bread. I'm glad I can pass down her love of baking. The cinnamon rolls were enjoyed Easter morning.

Week 12: March 24, 2013

We made cinnamon roll bunnies and chocolate rice chex egg nests with m&ms.  John helped pour the chocolate on the chex.  Annie helped add eyes to the bunny rolls.  Then we shared them with our friends and family at an egg hunt.