Peach muffins and Easy, eggless, dairy free, gluten free, vanilla cookies. Yes, this is possible and it was delicious!
How fantastic is it that we have two kitchenette workspaces to work from at OSHC?! It’s so we can cater for the large number of children we see and feed each day. This afternoon we were able to cook both peach muffins and allergy considerate (TM?) cookies at the same time!
We had many a sous chef measuring, pouring, tipping, mixing, moulding, baking, caking, cleaning, joking and a whole lot of working together to get these messy jobs done! Jamie wanted to weigh in on this article to stir the pot a little with some funny word play..
The feedback on the peach muffins was a resounding and almost unanimous thumbs up and the allergy considerate™ cookies apparently tasted like rainbows. Thanks for the interesting review, Danica!
Another student made an interesting comment to Jamie while preparing the peach muffin mixture. She wanted to just throw the ingredients into the mix and make it up as they went along. Apparently at home, mum just throws the stuff together! I’m sure it’s an artful throw, mum!
We’ve planned for a MasterChef themed day for the July school holidays and we’re now thinking we’ll challenge children with mystery ingredient boxes with no recipe or instructions, to see what they can come up with!
Eddie, Danica, Maddie, Josh, Whitney, and Jamie and Emily
Easy, eggless, dairy free, gluten free, delicious vanilla cookies
Ingredients
125g Nuttelex
1/2 cup of brown sugar
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups gluten free flour
Method
With a rack positioned in the middle of the oven, pre-heat the oven to 180ºC
Line a baking tray with compostable baking paper
Use an electric hand mixer to beat the butter on a medium speed for two to three minutes, or until creamy
Add the brown sugar beat for two more minutes until fluffy
Add and combine in the vanilla extract
On low speed add the gluten free flour and beat until it is just mixed in
Form 12 tablespoon size dough balls and flatten them slightly with your hand or something fun like a cookie stamp!
Place them on the prepared lined tray and bake for 10-12 minutes or until the edges are lightly browned
Once cooked, cool them on a wire rack before tucking in!
Peach muffins
Ingredients
4 cups of plain flour
1 tablespoon of cinnamon
2 teaspoons of mixed spice
1 teaspoon of nutmeg
2 teaspoons of baking powder
2 teaspoons of salt
1 and 3/4 cup of olive oil
4 eggs
1 cup of brown sugar
1.5 cups of caster sugar
3 cups of peaches, chopped up (we used canned peaches and the juice too!)
Method
Pre heat the oven to 200ºC and prepare patty pans on a baking tray
Sift the flour, spices, salt and baking powder into a bowl
Combine the oil with the brown and caster sugars and give it all a decent whisk before mixing in the eggs
Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and gently fold together- don’t over do it!
Gently fold in the peaches and then drop spoonfuls of the mixture into patty pans ready for baking- leave enough room for them to rise!
Bake for 20-25 minutes and make sure to cool them on a rack before serving