Kitchen-witchin'

Weatherbound once again, and quite Ravenhearst-ed out (I have a huge kink in my neck/shoulder at the moment which gets worse as I sit at the computer) we deemed today to be Baking Tuesday.

On the menu for today....vegan peanut-butter chocolate chip cookies (I had printed the recipe off last time and wanted to try it -- it called for tofu!! How cool is that?) and Big Fat Chocolate Chunk muffins....

First we beat some eggs.....(for the muffins, but of course)...this was actually the only part that Sebastian joined us for....it seems that his culinary aspirations do not extend beyond the preparation of eggs


Using our magick spoon, Savannah stirs the cookie dough. This is where she got off the baking train...I drove the rest of the way myself....

The muffin dough.....

Ta-da! The cookies -- I thought they were a bit crumbly but apparently that didn't matter to the kids (who mysteriously reappeared as they were coming out of the oven.) Probably something to do with my substituting whole wheat flour for white or brown sugar for white....undoubtedly some universal baking laws broken there. Renegade baking doesn't always produce the same results as renegade everything else...

Case in point - the muffins - a tad 'rocky' but delicious nonetheless -- oh, and apparently, butterscotch chips don't melt well....at least these ones didn't (had to substitute for some of the milk chocolate chip quantity as we were a bit generous to ourselves in the peri-baking sample department)