Mini Pancake Muffins!

When I finally decide to buy random baking ingredients that I don't already have lying around, I really feel like I need to use every last drop. Having buttermilk sitting in my fridge was becoming bothersome, so I found a recipe that looked good and made it!

Coco and I decided to make these little chocolate chip pancake muffins for breakfast :]

They were so small and had puffy little tops and fit perfectly in this bowl

So we had this cute little bowl o' muffins! But then we dipped them straight into maple syrup so they had a glaze on top...

So they were warm, straight out of the oven, and dripping in maple syrup. Great breakfast, huh?
They were so mini that we decided that you didn't even need to have a glass of milk, but something smaller...

like a shot?


So I had a morning shot of milk and a muffin!

Great start to the day :]

recipe: bakerella

The Start of an Era?

So I began this blog all by myself and it was quite lonely so now that school has started, Coco is back in life and we can bake together! She makes amazing cake balls and other delicious treats, so we decided to start doing this blog together! So it won't just be me bothering you with butter and sugar loaded desserts.. For our first joint venture, we decided to use my overripe bananas that weren't doing much good sitting on the counter. After foodgawking some banana recipes (normal), she came over and brought some butter (I was awkwardly excited about the butter seeing as it's not normal how much butter I buy these days...) and cute cupcake liners! We decided to make brownie bottomed banana muffins and it all started with a bang when I almost lit the microwave on fire (who knew her butter came in foil liners?).

We lined the bottoms with the brownie batter before piling on the banana cupcake batter in the cute animal print liners!

You can sort of see the brownie bottom in this picture! We also made a cinnamon glaze to add a little extra sugar (there can never be enough). They smelled amazing and of course tasted amazing also :]

... our diet starts tomorrow. miss you larso!
recipe: howsweeteats

Monkey Bread Muffins

This summer is becoming less of the lay around and do literally nothing type of summer and has slowly transitioned into waking up at 6:30 every morning and being in bed by 9. Fun, right? After taking my obligatory nap after work, I tried to convince myself that my house didn't need any more baked goods as the chocolate chip cookies were still around, but I failed in that. After seeing that I had all the ingredients, and it looked easy enough, this monkey bread recipe had to be made. It turned out to be a bit messier than I had anticipated...

and I had to improvise a bit but they turned out good enough! Delicious, actually...

recipe: ericasweettooth

Lemon Blueberry Muffins

I had some blueberries that were going to go bad soon so I decided they must be baked into something! I found this recipe for lemon blueberry muffins and they turned out amazing. I didn't add as much sugar into the icing as it called for, so the icing ended up just soaking into the top layer of the muffin like a liquid. It gave the top of the blueberry muffin a nice crispy, tangy, and sugary layer. Amazing. Once again, gone the next day. This seems to be a trend...

note to self: get a strainer. This makeshift "strainer" didn't work as well as I'd hoped when I had to juice the lemons.

recipe: ericasweettooth

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

I always forget that buying groceries for one person is muchh different than buying groceries for a family of four. So, as usual, I had some pretty brown bananas on the counter pretty soon after moving in. But, my mother always said that these are the best for baking, so I of course made some muffins! Banana chocolate chip muffins remind me of freshman year because that was the only thing my dining common did right. But they were yummy and gone pretty soon after I made them- success!

recipe: howto-simplify