Cinnamon Oat pancakes

Hi girls! This is a great recipe that I found in a cooking magizine called "Food Everyday" (http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/cinnamon-oat-pancakes?autonomy_kw=oat%20pancakes&rsc=header_1) I like that they are really tasty but they are 1/2 the fat and other "bad stuff". My whole family loved them! A great way to add a twist to them is by adding some frozen blueberries, rasins, or blackberries. Enjoy! ~ Amanda
Ingredients
Makes 20
2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
2 cups milk
2 large eggs
1/4 cup vegetable oil, plus more for skillet (I use butter instead of oil)
Directions
In a food processor, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and 1 cup oats and pulse a few times to coarsely grind oats. In a large bowl, whisk together milk, eggs, and oil. Add dry ingredients and 1 cup oats and whisk just until moistened.
Heat a large skillet (nonstick or cast-iron) or griddle over medium. Lightly oil skillet. Using 2 to 3 tablespoons for each pancake, drop batter in skillet and cook until a few bubbles have burst, 1 to 2 minutes. Flip pancakes and cook until browned on undersides, 1 to 2 minutes more. Repeat with more oil and batter.

Banana Bread (no milk)

It makes one large loaf or two small ones. We have doubled this recipe before and it works fine. It is SO good!!!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup butter or oleo
• 1 cup (2-4) bananas, mashed (ripe if possible; we always use frozen and thawed)
• 3/4-1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Directions:

1. Cream butter and sugar
2. add eggs and crushed bananas to creamed mixture, mix well
3. sift together flour, soda and salt
4. stir into banana mixture
5. stir in nuts
6. pour into greased and floured pan(s)
7. bake in 350' oven, large pan 1 hour, small loaves 30-45 minutes

By my great-grandma :) (It was in a private church cookbook)

Remember to post your healthy breakfast recipes this week, girls!!!

Announcement!

Hey girls!!! Thank you, Felicity, for participating last week. :) This week is Healthy Breakfast recipes! So post your favorite (healthy) breakfast recipes this week! I have to run, but I just wanted to tell y'all the plan.

If you have any ideas for future themed weeks, questions, or comments, please comment on a post. I check it frequently. :)

Simple Chocolate Drop Cookies

My Mom has found this exact recipe numerous places by many different people, so I am not sure who came up with it first. :p

Ingredients:

• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• 1 stick (1/2 cup) oleo (butter)
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 3 cups quick oatmeal
• nuts (optional)

Directions:

• Boil sugar, milk, cocoa, and oleo for one minute.
• Remove from fire and add peanut butter, vanilla, quick oatmeal, and nuts if you want.
• Drop by teaspoons on waxed paper.
• Let them get hard and then remove them from the waxed paper.

Remember to post your chocolate dessert recipes this week!!!! Have fun!!!!

Self - Saucing Chocolate Pudding

Ingredients
1 cup (150) self-raising flour
2 teaspoons cocoa
1/4 cup (65g) butter
1/2 cup (125) caster sugar*
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup (60g) chopped walnuts (optional)
1/2 cup (125mL) milk

Sauce
1/2 cup (90g) brown sugar
1 tablespoon (10g) cocoa
1 1/4 cups (315mL) boiling water

Directions
Set oven at 175° C. Brush or spray ovenproof dish with oil.
Sift flour and cocoa.
Cream butter and caster sugar until light and creamy.
Add egg and walnuts, mixing well.
Stir in flour mixture and milk alternately. Pour into ovenproof dish

To make sauce
Combine brown sugar and cocoa. Sprinkle on top of mixture in dish ad pour boiling water gently over all this. (Warning - as soon as you put the boiling water on it starts to cook, so if you don't want to put it in the oven straight away leave this step off until you are ready.)
Bake at 175°C for 40-45 minutes.
May be dusted with icing sugar mixture and served with custard sauce or ice-cream

My family always makes a double batch for 14 of us plus visitors and there are always leftovers... if that gives you an idea of how much to make. :D Enjoy!

*we use normal sugar and it works fine!

This is from Cookery the Australian Way (7th edition) by Shirley Cameron and Suzanne Russell

Announcement

Hi Everyone! First I just want to tell y'all how proud I am of you for posting all these recipes. :) We have nearly forty already!

One of our new authors (Amanda) had a great idea. She thought that we should have themed times, like Mexican dishes for one week, English foods for two weeks, etc. Thanks, Amanda!

So, for the rest of this week and next week, we are going to have Chocolate Desserts week! I thought we should start with something fun. :D You can always post anything else, and you can post Chocolate dessert recipes anytime, but this is just for fun.

Just have in mind, that you need to say where you get your recipes from. For example: All Recipes.com or a cook book, please say where you got it and/or who wrote it.

Have fun y'all!

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Tararua Biscuits

These high energy biscuits are standard New Zealand tramping/hiking fare. They don't crumble easily and will last for weeks, as well as being simply scrumptious!

Ingredients:
250 g butter
250 g (1½ c) brown sugar
½ tin (200g) condensed milk
250 g (2 c) flour
190 g (2 c) rolled oats
2 tsp baking powder
45 g (½ c) coconut


Melt butter, sugar and condensed milk together in large pot. Add flour, rolled oats and baking powder. Divide in half. Spread each half onto a greased tray – spread with a knife into 30 X 30 cm square, keeping edges neat and straight. Repeat with the other half.

Cook at 150° C for 10-15 minutes till light to golden brown. Cut each tray into 25 biscuits – 5 X 5.
Gently loosen, move and leave on tray. To harden biscuits a little more, return to oven which has been turned off – leave for another 5-10 minutes.

Options: Add ½ c chopped nuts and/or ½ c currants.

Cinnamon Apple Bars

Ingredients
· 3-4 apples
· 2/3 cup margarine
· 1 cup brown sugar
· 2 eggs
· 1 cup flour
· 1 teaspoon baking powder
· 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
· 2 teaspoons cinnamon
· 1 teaspoon nutmeg
· 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
· 1 cup rolled oats
· sliced almonds, to garnish (optional)

Directions
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F (180 C).
Peel and core apples; dice.
Cream margarine and sugar; add eggs and beat well.
Mix dry ingredients together in small bowl; then add to creamed mixture.
Stir in oats and apples; press into greased 9 by 14-inch pan; garnish with sliced almonds.
Bake for 25-30 minutes.

Cake Mix Oatmeal Cookies

By Hannah

Oven 350 F (180 C)

1 Box of cake mix (note: please don't use chocolate cake mix, I don't know what it is, but they taste like bricks if you use a chocolate mix)
1 Egg
1/3 cup of water
1/4 cup oil
1 cup of Oatmeal

Mix everything together and bake.