For tonight I made a batch of blueberry muffins topped with powdered sugar. I know the sugar negates the healthiness of eating blueberry muffins... but I can't help my sweet tooth.
Every Easter, I do battle with Cadbury Mini Eggs. I cannot resist their siren call. They are worse than crack! So I ate them for dessert tonight and last night and the night before that...
Now that I have a new kitchen, I'm hoping to start baking more and experimenting with some lower carb desserts.
My Easter crack are those stupid Russel Stovers marshmallow easter eggs (especially now that they make dark-chocolate covered ones). I cleaned out the nearest Duane Reade pharmacy - they got in about 20 a month or so ago and, in purchases of 4 or 5 at a time, I have now bought and eaten them all - so I had to widen my search radius and found some at a more distant CVS.
But that description might not capture the insanity of me taking time out of a reasonably busy day to walk a decent distance in search of a cheap chocolate-covered marshmallow egg. Did I have work to do, unanswered emails, other pressing things to address - yup; but I put those aside to find more stupid eggs. I am not proud of myself.
The Cadbury Eggs with the gooey centers are WAY too sweet for me. The Cadbury Mini Eggs are milk chocolate in a candy shell. And the Reese's Peanut Butter eggs are awesome, too.
I always am disappointed in muffins. I find them much too sweet for me, like cupcakes. I prefer a muffin thats a little bit sweet. I am always disappointed with a cake muffin. As a kid, it seemed like they were less sweet, but that's likely my imagination.
I am glad it's not just me. I used to like berry muffins as a kid, but now I feel like you can't taste the berries because of the sugar. I went from liking blueberry muffins to hating them.My memory of muffins were they were less sweet and smaller, not the mega-softball-sized ones, one regularly sees today. Muffins filled a niche between bread and cake - sweater than the former, but not as sweet as the latter. But something changed in the last twenty years as muffins became these much-sweeter, gigantic cake-like things.
Try this...take the caps off, put the berries on a cookie sheet, and then put them in a 210 degree oven for 3 hours. Delicious!I'm just pointing this out because the above picture reminded me, but...the strawberries this year have been absolute crap. They look like a million bucks, and they taste like a nickel. And it's mid-season!
I have a recipe for grain free peanut butter chocolate chunk muffins that is to die for. It utilizes banana and only 1/4 c granulated sugar for sweetness.I always am disappointed in muffins. I find them much too sweet for me, like cupcakes. I prefer a muffin thats a little bit sweet. I am always disappointed with a cake muffin. As a kid, it seemed like they were less sweet, but that's likely my imagination.
Could you share that recipe? I'm interested.Try this...take the caps off, put the berries on a cookie sheet, and then put them in a 210 degree oven for 3 hours. Delicious!
I have a recipe for grain free peanut butter chocolate chunk muffins that is to die for. It utilizes banana and only 1/4 c granulated sugar for sweetness.
I'm making homemade, dairy free chocolate ice cream tonight.
Debating whether I should make a chocolate cake