Busy baking!

Today I just wanted to bake...

So I got out my recipes and baking trays and got busy...

But first I made some yogurt and put on the bread maker. Then I made 24 blueberry muffins- some for the weekend then the rest to be frozen in bags of three for our packed lunches this week.

Then I found a recipe for raisin and oat Whoopie pies which I hadn't made before and just sounded sort of healthy-ish! Well they did have oats and raisins in them! When I tasted them I thought they were so good I decided to leave them as cookies- they are really superbly good!

I think I used just about every mixing bowl and baking tray and utensil we own. Fortunately the smell of yummy baking drew my lovely husband to the kitchen and he was wonderful helping with ( aka doing most of...) the washing up.

Until next time
Gillian

Shelterbox

Yesterday Sean wanted to help me bake some muffins for a cake sale at his school to raise money for Shelterbox. He chose to make double chocolate chip muffins and was a tremendous little cook--- of course the best bit of cooking is licking the bowl clean!

 After "testing" a few to make sure they tasted OK (we all had one!) Sean took 42 muffins to sell. All were sold making a real contribution to the money raised today. (I don't have a total for what was raised today but will let you know later.)

The muffins- delicious!

Shelterbox (http://www.shelterbox.org) are a Cornish based international disaster relief charity who are currently working to deliver emergency shelter and lifesaving supplies in their immediately recognisable green box to those in immediate dire need in Japan. They are a charity who really make a difference to those they help.




Until next time
Gillian