Unseasonal Carrot Pancakes for Leddy

I know that fall spices aren't really in right now but I really wanted to make a healthier, more flavorful pancake. I also owe it to myself to experiment more with ingredients I can actually eat.

Peapod has canned carrots that are on my easy and good list right now.  I puréed them with a little maple syrup to use in place of canned pumpkin.  Brilliant!  So good.  I am making these with Potatoes Hortono Cakes for a little sweet and a little savory. Everyone happy? Do I care? I AM HAPPY!

2 cups GF baking mix

1/4 cup sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Pinch of salt

1 cup puréed carrots with 1 tablespoon maple syrup

1-1/2 cups Very Vanilla Soymilk, warmed

2 teaspoons melted margarine

Whisk together all the dry ingredients in a large bowl.  Combine all the wet ingredients in medium bowl.  Add the wet to the dry and whisk until combined.  It is thick which is correct.  Such a pretty color!

Ladle onto hot griddle, about 1/4 cup each pancake.

Impromptu Bamama Bread

I have been in the kitchen ALL friggin day.  When I wasn't in the kitchen, I was in the car.  My back is screaming.  My liver is angry as hell.  My legs need a vacation.  I. Am. Tired.

Len has had a crap day.  She didn't get to see Gatsby.  She didn't get to the Picasso exhibit.  I thought a little taste of home may do her good.  I'm going to pick her up in the morning for a super quick visit.  She may only be here and hour and a half but she will be here!

I texted her that I made cinnamon banana bread except it actually said bamama bread.  Bamama bread on Mother's Day.  Works for me!

Use the link for Bubba's Banana Bread below EXCEPT substitute one teaspoon cinnamon in place of the chocolate chips.  I suppose you could use both, but I don't like chocolate and cinnamon together.

Bubba's Banana Bread

Golden Cinnamon Biscuits

The second thing I knew would benefit from the new gold baking sheet was BISCUITS!

I was craving baked goods so badly the other day.  I knew there was a waffle I made in the freezer.  I was looking so forward to it Friday morning too.  Unfortunately, I over toasted it and it was sorta petrified.

This is an insanely busy day with prom prep (flowers, haircut, over an hour EACH WAY to drive him to his dates house, photos) and, just for fun, a mortgage refi, food prep for Mothers Day lunch tomorrow.  Then there is the usual, laundry, cooking, cleaning.

I just had to have a cinnamon roll dammit!

This is the Can Do Biscuits with some additions.

2 cups GF baking mix
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch of salt
1/4 cup sugar
1 heaping teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup cold margarine
3/4 to 1 cup Vey Vamilla Soymilk

Preheat oven to 450.

Combine the cinnamon and sugar in small bowl.  This may look like a lot of cinnamon to you but if I'm going for flavor, I'm really going to go for it!

In large mixing bowl combine baking mix, baking soda, and salt.  Put the margarine in the center.  Pour the cinnamon sugar on top of margarine.  Cut in the margarine with pastry cutter or fork, trying to smash the cinnamon sugar into the margarine, until crumbly.  I wanted the cinnamon sugar to be part of the margarine.

Slowly add the Soymilk and stir until thick batter is formed.  Remember to stir from the bottom and add small amounts of Soymilk in targeted dry spots.

Spoon onto baking sheet.  Sprinkle a little sugar on top and some cinnamon too.

New Goldtouch Non Stick Bakeware

My babies bought me two new quarter sheet baking pans from Williams Sonoma for Mother's Day.  So sweet!

They are super slippery so very non stick.  They are heavy too.  The surface is diamond cut to give a nice even, toasty bottom to cookies.

I made some chocolate chip cookies to try them out.  They are chewy and crispy on the bottom!  SO GOOD!

Thank you to my Len and my Bub! ❤

Chocolate Chip Cookies