We had a quiet weekend this weekend..... I mean really quiet as in didn't leave our fenced yard for the WHOLE weekend. This was great we all got some catch up on rest. I became a crazy craft lady ....knitting and sewing like a woman possessed (I think it's called nesting) and the kids fended for themselves. I had dinner all weekend sorted, the rest they organised themselves (and by they I mean the kids). Just wait till you have a 7 year old they are like mini adults, they can pour cereal and milk, they can make toast and negotiate spreads with a fussy 2 year old and an indecisive 5 year old, they can pack it all up afterwards and still think it's fun.
I tell you slack parents create very capable 7 year olds!!
All this was going on while I was 'busy' sewing in the air conditioning listening to Ed Sheeran, drinking coffee....bliss!! (More about the sewing later in the week).
This was all great until morning tea ('smoko' as it's called out here) Sunday when we were officially out of food, well fruit and snack foods anyway so out came the CWA cook book I love this cook book it's amazing. 'Miss 7' and 'Miss 5' were in charge of the biscuits and they made 'Whatever Biscuts' which they created using cornflakes as the 'Whatever'. Now I let them do the whole recipe themselves and they did it (messy doesn't even explain the kitchen after it)... but they loved it and they taste great. I am not much of a biscuit maker, too hard, too soft, too crumbly would usually describe my biscuits but these are great and easy!!
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| Watch out the kids are cooking |
WHATEVER BISCUITS
Cream butter and sugar, mix in egg, then sifted flour and "whatever". For this one, you bake them at 180oC for 10-15 mins.
Round 2
'Master 2' fancies himself as a bit of a chef, he loves cooking so he and I made the Hawaiian Tea cake recipe into muffins. This used up the rest of the tin of pineapple used on our Saturday night pizza. I find muffins so much easier for lunch boxes during the week. I made it a bit healthier by using a little less sugar and pineapple, coconut and cinnamon on top, wholemeal flour and less butter and extra milk. They taste great and were so easy!!
HAWAIIAN TEA CAKE
CWA lady: Lindy Ceeland, Orielton Branch, Tas.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup softened butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg, well beaten
1 cup self-raising flour
Pinch of salt
2 tbsps milk
1/2 cup well-drained pineapple
For the topping:
2 tsps butter, melted
2 tsps ground cinnamon
2 tsps sugar
Method:
Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a 20cm cake tin. Cream butter and sugar, then gradually add the egg. Sift flour and salt and add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk. Spread mixture in prepared tin and arrange pineapple on top. Bake for approximately 10 minutes. When cooked, brush with melted butter and sprinkle the combined cinnamon and sugar.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup softened butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg, well beaten
1 cup self-raising flour
Pinch of salt
2 tbsps milk
1/2 cup well-drained pineapple
For the topping:
2 tsps butter, melted
2 tsps ground cinnamon
2 tsps sugar
Method:
Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a 20cm cake tin. Cream butter and sugar, then gradually add the egg. Sift flour and salt and add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk. Spread mixture in prepared tin and arrange pineapple on top. Bake for approximately 10 minutes. When cooked, brush with melted butter and sprinkle the combined cinnamon and sugar.
So that was our day in the kitchen tropical style, creating yummy easy treats for the week ahead, they are delicious, especially with a coffee in the air conditioning enjoying..... 'These beautiful days'.
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| Corn Flake Whatever Biscuits and Pineapple Tea Muffins |
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