Sometimes you just have to put the laundry aside and enjoy some giggles and family-time. It’s good for the soul. This weekend, I put out some Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons candy and the kids et moi got creative. And had fun. Yummy fun.
First we made some banana muffins which the kids decorated with Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons. It was a great chuckle of breaking eggs and measuring flour. (Note: I still stand by my rule of having one kid in charge of wet ingredients and another in charge of dry ingredients. It stops fights before they start). Then afterwards we all sat down to enjoy warm, delicious muffins and talked. Real talk. At the table.
Plus there's the added bonus they'll also be enjoying these muffins at school during the week for a treat. One less thing for me to worry about.
Activity Mummy’s Banana Muffins
Ingredients:
2 ripe bananas
2 eggs
splash of vanilla
½ cup of milk
1 individual vanilla yogurt container
1 tsp baking soda
2 c flour
½ c sugar
1/3 c wheat bran flakes
1 tbsp flax seed
1/3 c oil
Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons
Instructions:
With an electric blender mash bananas, eggs, milk & vanilla together.
In a separate bowl, mix vanilla yogurt & baking soda and set aside. It will double in size. Good science experiment for kids to watch!
Combine flour sugar, wheat bran & flax seeds. Then add this to banana mixture. Mix well. Add oil at the end. Mix again.
Get the kids to use an ice cream scooper to scoop the muffin mixture into pre-sprayed muffin tins. (Kids decided to bury 1 Dairy Milk Button in the middle of the muffin and then decorate with 2 Buttons on top).
Bake in a 350C oven for 20-25 minutes.
Makes 24 muffins
Trivia: Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons are Fair Trade Certified. (Which helps farmers get fair price for their crops along with helping to ensure they meet with social, economic and environmental standards.) I share this because I’m kinda socially conscious (and my kids are too). I’ll buy Fair Trade Certified. Every time
With the muffins put away, both in our bellies and tupperware for safe keeping, we were left wondering what other yummy treat we could make. After all, how does one top banana muffins? After one raucous family fun round of the old hand game rock, paper, scissors...we found our topper in crepes.
Look at that little crepe face, “Cute As A Button!” (Like how I did that? Cadbury Buttons…Cute As A Button. – uh-huh…the kids groaned too). But darn it, we did good!
Here’s my recipe for Caroline’s Crepes. They are famous. At least in my house.
At one point in the midst of our baking/cooking madness my middle child said “I like this day” and I realized…we need to have more “I like this day” kind of days. Hangin’ out together, munching together, sharing silly looks…it was fun…for us all.
Memories are never made by doing laundry…and sockless me is pretty happy I ignored the laundry this weekend. Memories are the stuff of giggles and a few Cadbury Buttons and yummy fun.
They grow so fast - savour the family moments!
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