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Very Very Easy Muffins - Emily - 20 July 2011

I apparently can't stop cooking at the moment so after another walk in the rain I decided to give Emily's Very VeryEasy Muffins a go.

I was seriously multitasking while making these muffins. All at once I was making a quiche for dinner (no pastry, easy, delicious), making the batch of banana and coconut muffins, putting the apples in to bake for the apple and cinnamon muffins and icing my face after waxing (I've got seriously sensitive skin). It was quite the production!

Needless to say, the kitchen had never seen such a mess! The muffins were as easy as Em had said. The bananas (although practically rotten) cost me $6 which was a total rip off but it really was as easy as combining all the ingredients and putting the mixture in a muffin tin (which I had to buy especially). I made 9 out of this batch and they cooked perfectly after 20 minutes.

I cut the apples up into the right size, tipped a load of brown sugar mixed in water over them and added some cinnamon to the top to bake them. They cooked in about 10 minutes and tasted really yum. I forgot to mix the butter in until the very last minute so the mixture was really runny and buttery. I added a bit more flour until it was the right texture and tipped it into the tin. They also made 9, cooked in 20 minutes and were amazing.

I of course took them to work for everyone to try and they seemed to disappear pretty quickly which is always a good sign! Very easy and something I'm sure I'll make again! The apple ones in particular were a hit!

Tips: When creating a mess in the kitchen, don't leave the container of flour in the sink with its lid off as when you turn the tap on, it could be a disaster!
Music: Sian had Friends on so I watched that - the Barbados episodes – amazing!

and the quiche just FYI

Jocelyn is Banana Man.

12^th January 2011 – Ann’s Banana Cake by Linda.

Back to work this week (eleven new recipes). It’s been a stressful time.

Did so many stupid things in one day I surprised even myself

1. Realised that I’d published my blog on the wrong address. ‘Coach potato baker’ will be my next blog about training potato bakes into fine athletes.
2. Was freezing in the office so went home to get a jacket, but forgot to take my keys and couldn’t get in so had to stay freezing all day.
3. Emailed Sian to tell her of stupidity and wrote ‘Oh know, how stupid’ in my email. New gramma low.

Made myself feel better by cooking Ann’s Banana Cake by Linda. I couldn’t be bothered cooking dinner so went for a treat instead. Not sure what I’ll do with it as we don’t really eat cake, but I’m pretty sure if I take it to work Sim will eat it.

I quite enjoyed cooking a dessert. There was lots of fun stuff to do! People who don’t eat eggs rarely get to play with them, so that was lots of fun. It took all my willpower to not squeeze it to crack it in my fist… by I resisted! I got to use my scales on the ‘ounce’ setting to measure out four ounces of butter, and now learnt how to spell ‘ounce’.

Sieving the flour was my favourite thing of all time and I got to practice a new stirring technique – folding. Was basically the same as all my other stirring techniques. Seemed to go well and I enjoyed doing it (while pretending the dishwasher wasn’t in fact flooding around my feet).

May be a brilliant chef, but definitely not a clean one!

Cake tipped out of the pan brilliantly and tastes really good. I think the edges are a bit tough, but the middle is delicious. Simone said it’s “wreally good” with a mouthful of cake, so that’s a good sign!

Going to Bali next week, so speeding it up a bit to make sure I still get enough done.

First showcase this weekend – Ash might be a tough judge so I’ll have to nail it!

Tips: I only cooked it for 43 minutes (don't know why, just thought it seemed like a good amount of time... worked a treat).

Music: Blues Traveler.