There is a bakery in the Pike Place Market in Seattle that makes the most amazing pumpkin cookies. These cookies are monsters – bigger than my hand – and taste like the top of the softest muffin. I love them. When I worked in downtown Seattle a thousand years ago, I would sometimes walk over to the market during the middle of the day for a cookie break. Or I would walk past the bakery on my way home from work to pick up a cookie for dinner. Ah, the single days when a monster sized cookie for dinner was not only appropriate but normal.
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I know, I know. I have been a horrible blogger of late. All this cooking and living has given me no time to write or photograph food, and as we all know, it’s the writing and the photography that is really important.
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I’m a fan of pop tarts. I know, I know. Total garbage and I shouldn’t even admit in public that I like them, but pop tarts are happy childhood food to me. That’s not to say that I ate them non-stop during my childhood, oh no. My mom was pretty consistent with the no sugar rule, especially when it came to breakfast foods. It’s cool, though, I don’t need therapy or anything. At least not for that. Anyway, I let my kids have way more sugar than I should. Even I wouldn’t let them eat pop tarts for breakfast. Let’s call it a dessert, shall we? But when I saw these cute little mini pop tarts on Pinterest, I had to make them.
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The Pinterest-verse does not need another take on pop tarts. I know this for a fact. However, what do you think I am going to do today? Yep, that’s right. I’m going to talk about making pop tarts.
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On Tuesday, we talked about the amazing frozen banana cake. Today, we move on to the frozen banana cake’s much simpler sibling, the banana sheet cake. We are not talking Texas sheet cake here. The recipe calls for a 9”x13” pan. I used an 8” square and 8” round for mine with the intention of freezing one for later before frosting. More on how well that went later.
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When I was a little girl, I spent a good portion of the summer at my grandparents’ house. Most of my memories from that time center around food in some way. There was always so much food to choose from and my grandmother was a firm believer is spoiling her oldest granddaughter. Add to the well-stocked pantry that someone was always dropping by with fresh beans or tomatoes or shrimp or cake, and it is a wonder that I wasn’t a total blimp of a kid.
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We’ve been doing a lot of baking around here lately. It’s no wonder my pants don’t fit.
Gus stayed home from school on Wednesday with a (conveniently temporary) fever. After cartoons, breakfast with dad, hot cocoa with mom, a little craft store shopping, errands, and some coloring, Gus decided he wanted to “make a project” with the Kitchen-Aid mixer. We searched for recipes together and he picked out peanut butter cookies.
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