Chocolate chip Chocolate pudding cookies

We made chocolate pudding cookies! (these were one of the first cookies we made) My youngest said he wanted chocolate chocolate chip cookies so we searched for ideas and this recipe sounded so good, so we gave it a go & they were so yummy.

Recipe via; I heart eating:

What you’ll need;

• 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter softened
• 1 1/4 cups brown sugar packed
• 3.4 ounce package instant chocolate pudding mix
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups semisweet chocolate chips

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
3. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar.
4. Beat in the instant pudding mix until blended.
5. Stir in the eggs and vanilla.
6. Blend in the flour mixture until just combined.
7. Stir in the chocolate chips.
8. Drop cookies by 1.5 tablespoons onto prepared baking sheets.
9. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until edges are set and centers are still soft.

Head over to I heart eating to read the nutritional facts and important recipe notes. (& to check out all of their other amazing recipes! SO many yummy things going on over there.)

I want to try these again with vanilla or banana pudding and maybe white chocolate chips. Mmm

Nana’s Easy Banana Bread

I tried a new banana bread recipe this time. I cringed when I saw that it called for miracle whip, but it wasn’t too bad. Mum brought this one over. I’m not sure where she originally got it from, as I could never see her putting miracle whip in on her own decision. She dislikes it as much as I do.. Probably where I get that from.

Here’s the handwritten version from my Mum.

Easy Banana Bread

• 1 egg
• 1/2 c miracle whip dressing
• 3 bananas mashed
• 1 1/2 c flour
• 1 c sugar
• 1/2 c chopped walnuts
• 1 tsp b soda
• 1 tsp salt

Heat oven to 350°

Beat together; egg, dressing & bananas in a large bowl w/ whisk until well blended.

Mix remaining ingredients together in a separate bowl & add to wet mix until just combined.

Pour into greased 9×5″ loaf pan.

Bake for 1 hour. Insert toothpick to be sure it’s done.

Cool in pan for 10 minutes then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

This turned out really moist. While I did enjoy it, I’m still searching for “the one”. If you’ve got any good ones, please send them my way. ❤

Hershey’s Peanut Butter Kisses Cookies

These ones turned out yummy!

Hershey’s Peanut Butter Kisses

I took the general Hershey’s recipe and switched it to things I had on hand

Here’s what we used;

• 1/2 c butter
• 1/2 c sugar
• 1/3 c peanut butter
• 2 tbsp icing sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 tbsp milk
• 1 tsp b powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 c flour
• Hershey’s kisses (or chocolate chips. I used both since I didn’t have enough kisses for each cookie)

Heat oven to 375°

Remove wrappers from kisses

Cream together; butter, sugar, peanut butter & icing sugar.

Add; egg, milk & vanilla. Beat well.

Stir together flour, salt & b. powder & gradually beat into mixture.

Shape into 1” balls. Place on ungreased baking sheet (I always parchment) bake 8-10 mins on middle rack or until golden at edges.

Immediately press kisses (or chips) into the center of each cookie. Cool on wire rack.

Enjoy! ♥️

You could get really creative with these and add in different Hershey’s Kisses flavours to get a whole new cookie each time. Mmm.

Here is the original recipe

Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Pancakes

I haven’t been able to do much baking lately. Figures. As soon as I get started, I start experiencing dental pain and can’t chew anything & then had to get started on some work. 1 tooth extracted and on the mend. Then more work to get done. SO not fun. In the meantime I’ve been trying to come up with a few things that are soft and that don’t have sugar in them. I made french toast today (so yummy) and we tried out these chocolate peanut butter banana pancakes a couple of days ago. These had no sugar added so I sprinkled some icing sugar on the ones for the boys to make them a tad bit more enjoyable.

What You’ll Need: 

• 1 c flour
• 1 1/2 c milk
• 1/2 c peanut butter
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp cocoa
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 banana mashed
• butter or margarine for pan
• icing sugar to sprinkle on top (optional) Can also use syrup or honey.

Pre-heat pan (I use cast iron) & put in margarine to melt.

Whisk egg & milk together

add flour gradually, then cocoa and vanilla. Whisk together

stir in peanut butter & mashed banana

For extra chocolat-y pancakes you could add chocolate chips. These had just a hint with the cocoa. Walnuts might be good too.

Pour batter into pan to make a thin circle. Wait for some bubbles and flip when bottom is browned. Brown the topside and place on plate. Using a fine mesh strainer, sprinkle with icing sugar (or alternatively add honey, syrup or sugar to the top) I made ours super thin because that’s how I like them but you can make them however thick you like.

I find all pancakes that include banana are a bit mushy. I wish there was a way around that as I really don’t care for the texture… but these were pretty tasty.

What are your favourite pancakes?

One pan Yorkshire Pudding

I made a one dish Yorkshire pudding with dinner tonight! The recipe that I shared, from 1809 was done in one dish so I thought I’d try it out too, instead of the usual muffin tins. I used my regular recipe though. This turned out so yummy.

One Dish Yorkshire Recipe

• 3 eggs
• 1 c. Milk
• 1 c. Flour
• Pinch of salt
• 2 tbsp of butter or meat drippings

Beat eggs and milk together. Stir in flour.

Heat oven to 375 degrees.

Put butter in dish and place in oven to melt, (or drippings to warm) 5 minutes.

Pour in batter

Bake 30 minutes or until bottom is browned, flip over and brown the other side (I put it in another 15 minutes on this side)

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This is what the top looked like when it was time to flip it over:

This is what the bottom looked like when I flipped it over:

& this is what it looked like after browning the other side 15 minutes & flipping it back over:

Cut into squares and serve with gravy.

It was crunchy all around and soft inside.

This is the first time I’ve made a full pan pudding. I loved it! It was also my first time flipping a Yorkshire pudding over. I loved having it browned on both sides. So yummy. I could eat this every day. Yorkshire is my absolute favourite food.

What’s your favourite way to make Yorkshire pudding?