Easy Baking and Breakfasts!

I've tried two new recipes since I last posted (on a bit of a roll - both with the recipes and with the jotting stuff down here).

As noted a couple days ago, I was planning on still trying a few recipes from Better Food For Kids.

My three year old and I did the Orange Banana Muffins this morning to get rid of our over ripe bananas.  I'll wait and see before firmly weighing in, but I think they are a success.  My daughter got to help so we made it into an activity, which was fun - and they also made the house smell great! 

Here's the recipe.

 

Orange Banana Muffins

Makes 12 muffins

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F

Ingredients

- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup cornmeal
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 1 cup mashed bananas
- 1/2 cup frozen OJ concentrate, thawed
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 egg

Instructions

1. In a bowl combine whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, cornmeal, baking soda, baking powder and salt.

2.  In another bowl, stir together bananas, orange juice concentrate, brown sugar, oil, milk and egg.  Add mixture to dry ingredients; stir until mixed.

3.  Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.  Bake for 20-25 minutes or until muffins are firm to touch.

Nutritional info (per muffin): 179 cals; 3.9g protein; 31.1g carbs; 4.9g Fat; 3% CDV calcium; 11%CDV Iron.

---------------------

Next up, yesterday we also did breakfast for dinner.  My daughter wanted eggs.  Seeing she's also a waffle fan and we hadn't yet tried French Toast with her, I figured I'd try this recipe I found on Kids in the Capital courtesy of Amanda Y.

J's French Toast

Ingredients

- 5 eggs
- 1/4 cup of milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 6-8 slices whole wheat bread (at least day old works best)
- 1-2 tbsp vegetable oil

Instructions

Pre-heat the pan w/ some oil.  Do up the mixture.  Coat the toast with it and cook.  It was suggested to preheat the pan then lower the temperature to about medium or slightly lower.  That worked well for us.  I halved the recipe (well, 3 eggs, and then halved everything else) and that also worked fine.  I just cooked up the (very small) remainder of the batter into eggs to go with the french toast.  Cinnamon eggs were actually quite good!

We served it with blueberries; maple syrup and chocolate milk.

It was quick.  It was easy.  My little food critic helped with some of the cooking and ate it.  So we'll do it again.