It seems that our poor oven is getting quite a workout lately. I’ve been cranking out confections almost every other day in recent weeks and I am not sure quite where they go. Secretly, I pray that they don’t go on me in the form of unneeded pounds.
Baking is incredibly easy, you see. All you need for most sweets/baked goods are flour, sugar, butter, eggs & flavorings. In our case, we are partial to chocolate and since spring is not quite here yet, I don’t feel the compulsion to break out strawberries and rhubarb just yet. Just yesterday, overripe bananas were staring me down, taunting me really. I decided that I’d had quite enough and made chocolate banana bread.
This is it, hot out of the oven with the chocolate chunks still oozing their molten cacao liquor goodness. Loaves and muffins are among the easiest things to bake since most don’t even require pre-meditation. That is, you need not make the decision to bake ahead of time and bring butter to room temperature, just melt and voila, you’re ready to go. Skeptical about a chocolate banana bread, I was quickly converted by the divine smell emanating from the oven while it baked.
That first slice, while the loaf is still hot out of the oven. Can you imagine how good it was? Irresistible. Obviously the bread won’t stick around long at our house, and so I’ll have to find a new diversion. Until then, here are a few other things that have made cameo appearances in our little kitchen.
I find baking very relaxing! So when weather is not cooperating, I too bake quite a lot. Yesterday I made this: http://pinchofyum.com/deep-dish-chocolate-chip-cookie-with-caramel-sea-salt. It’s a killer, no a single gram of health, but it’s so delicious, that even takes our spring blues away. 🙂 My little one helped me, so it was fun!
You shouldn’t have posted a link to that deliciousness. I am going to have to absolutely make it and probably have far too much of it. Sophia has been quite a little helper lately. I find that we have introduced cooking and helping around the kitchen as one of our play schemes. She can only play so much inside the house with what toys (even though there are many) she has.