I'll take my oatmeal to go, please...

Oatmeal Apple Muffins

2 cups uncooked oatmeal

1 cups white self-rising flour

½ tsp baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

1/3 cup sugar

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

1/8 tsp ground allspice

1/8 tsp ground cloves

1/4 cup canola oil

1 cup low fat buttermilk

1 large egg

1 medium apple, peeled & chopped

2 tsp cinnamon sugar

Combine dry ingredients together except for cinnamon sugar.

Beat egg with milk & oil.

Mix wet & dry ingredients, stir in peeled & diced apple.

Spoon into cupcake tin sprayed with butter flavored cooking spray.

Sprinkle tops with cinnamon sugar.

Bake at 425° about 15 minutes.

Get your kicks

The boss turns, you guessed it, 66 tomorrow. So he gets a chocolate cake with magic crusting buttercream frosting and fondant numbers.

Mm.. Tortillas brushed with butter and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, cut into wedges and ready to be made into tortilla chips to eat with fresh fruit salsa. Bake them at 400 degrees for about 8 minutes or until lightly browned. (If you're pressed for time or trying to save calories, spray the tortillas with butter-flavored cooking spray before sprinkling instead of brushing with butter.)

raspberry banana bread muffins

I had some bananas turning black on the counter, and raspberries drying up in the fridge and voila!



INGREDIENTS: (adapted from: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Raspberry-Banana-Bread/Detail.aspx )
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup mashed ripe bananas
1/2 cup vegetable oil (or ¼ cup oil and ¼ cup apple sauce)
1/3 cup water
1 cup fresh or frozen unsweetened raspberries

DIRECTIONS:
In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. In another bowl, combine the eggs, bananas, oil, applesauce, vanilla, and water. Stir into the dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in raspberries.
Pour into cupcake pans or bread pans. Bake at 350 degrees F for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.
I made 18 muffins, but it’d probably work better with smaller muffins. If you use sweetened apple sauce reduce the sugar.

Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes

Featuring the Holy Trinity.

http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/01/car-bomb-cupcakes/