This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! Last week I told you about my need to cook up some butternut squash. Besides some familiar recipes that I already had, I had been searching the web for some new recipes to try. One that I came across was this muffin recipe from Bon Appetit. I decided to make that recipe that very day! It was love at first bit. When I read through the recipes, I found that I didn't have all of the exact ingredients that I needed to make the muffins. So, I decided to make a few changes so that I didn't have to run to the store. Here are a few things that I did:
To grate the squash, I found that the easiest thing to do was to use my food processor using the large grater side of the grating blade. So, you can click to Bon Appetit and use their exact recipe, or you can use my variation on the card below. Just click the card to get a printable pdf. Oh! And one more thing? I also didn't add the pecans to the recipe. I am not a big nut eater, and I think pecans are basically for pecan pie. But, you can put them in if you want to do that, of course. As you can tell, this recipe is not low fat, between the butter, the coconut cream and the whole milk. The flavor and unctuousness shines through when you eat a warm muffin right out of the oven. But, the butternut squash in these are a great way to sneak a vegetable into your diet. Other delicious muffin recipes:
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This post contains affiliate links. We will be compensated for purchases you make at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! For Father's Day, my granddaughter was excited to make her dad and grandpa a cake! She chose a Dolly Parton Style Coconut Cake Mix that I had in my cupboard and whipped that up as a 2 layer round cake. I had seen a cake online that was decorated to look like a campfire. Since her dad and my husband both love camping, I suggested that might me a great way to decorate the cake. She was all in! If you decide to make this cake, of course you can do it in any flavor you like.
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Whenever I watch any baking shows on television, it always happens, I see them make something that I just have to try! So, when Anita brought me some beautiful blueberries, I knew that I wanted to make a French recipe called Clafoutis!
A clafoutis is actually a type of custard that is baked with any fruit added that you can imagine. It reminds be of what we all a Dutch Puff Pancake, or a type of souffle, because it puffs up in the oven and is gorgeous, (but then it falls, lol). When we do a Dutch pancake, we add the fruit toppings after it comes out of the oven, but the fruit is baked right in a clafoutis.
This recipe is surprisingly quick and easy to mix up! There will be lots of ooos and aahhs when it comes out of the oven.
I added sugared blueberries and tiny strawberries to decorate the top.
This recipe is definitely a great way to enjoy summer berries.
One thing I did to enhance the blueberries was to use a couple of drops of lemon essential oil in the batter of the custard. Also to make the sugared berries, I rolled them in lemon juice and then in granulated sugar. Those touches of lemon worked so well to brighten up the flavors of the clafoutis! I purchase my oils fromDoTerra. I trust their oils to be pure enough to use in my recipes. Here is the super simple recipe! You can substitute any fruit instead of blueberries. On the Summer Bake-Off that I was watching, someone made it using mangoes and someone else used marinated cherries. So, give it a try and tell me how you liked it! Just click the recipe and you will get a printable pdf file.
Other blueberry recipes you will love:
This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. We do not share your information with other sites. All views expressed are our own. Thank you for your support! I was up at my son's home last week and he and his kids had made some delicious cookies! To my surprise, he told me that they only had 3 ingredients, one of them being Cool Whip! So, I made them myself today since I have grandchildren coming to visit this evening. They are so easy to make and since I made them with a devil's food cake mix, they seem like brownies. These cookies will be a great simple recipe to make for Memorial Day Weekend, plus an excellent addition to the 3 Ingredient Cookies Collection we shared a few years ago. A Few Tips:
Here is the recipe card. Simple click on it to print it. I think these would really be good done with a lemon cake mix! Making these cookies got me to wondering about other unusual uses for Cool Whip. Here are a few Ideas I have found that you might want to try. Unusual Cool Whip Recipes:
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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