Baked Maple Bars

I'm back! My husband had a few days off from work so I spent some time with him and neglected posting for a few days! I still tested some pins out of course.. haha. I wanted to make a dessert for him so I searched and found this pin for baked maple bars.

Baked Maple Bars

1 1/2 cup Milk

1/3 cup Crisco

The Supplies 1

4 tbs Sugar

2 tsp salt

1/4 cup lukewarm Water

2 packets Yeast

2 large Eggs beaten

5 cups Flour

2 tsp Cinnamon

 Directions

Milk Mix

1. Scaled the milk, remove from heat and melt butter and 3 tablespoons of sugar and let cool to lukewarm (about 15 minutes)
2. In mixing bowl mix yeast, remaining sugar and water and let sit for 5 minutes until foamy

Milk / Yeast

3.Add beaten eggs to foamy yeast mix.
4. Slowly add warm milk mixture to yeast mix.
5. Whisk together cinnamon and flour in separate bowl.

Step 6

6. Add flour mix gradually to milk/yeast mix until almost combined.
7.Switch to dough hook and let knead for 5-7 minutes until slightly sticky.







8. Transfer to oiled bowl and let rise for 30 minutes until doubled.

Step 8 B

Step 8 A

9.Roll out dough and cut into 12 bars. Put on cookie sheet and let rise for 30 minutes.

10. Preheat oven 425 degrees. Bake for 7-8 minutes and let cool








The Frosting
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 tsp mapleine (maple flavor extract)
1/8 tsp salt

 Directions

1. On medium heat, bring milk butter and brown sugar to a boil for 3 minutes. Set aside to cool for 15 minutes

 2. Mix powdered sugar, maple extract, and salt to brown sugar mix until completely combined

3. Frost donuts! 

Pannukakku

Good Morning! Its Sunday and that means tomorrow its back to waking up at 5 am and my husband starts his work week! Double boo! So today I decided to make my husbands favorite breakfast Pannukakku, which is a Finnish oven pancake.  This is something we have attempted before, but it was never the same as when his family made it. It was always either too eggy or just nothing like it was suppose to be. I have tried a couple from Pintrest like this pin. It was good but just not what we wanted. I had asked Nicholas to ask his grandmother for the recipe and FINALLY after months of bothering him he did yesterday morning so I made it today! Even though Laura and I are 1300 miles away from each other we still managed to make similar breakfasts this morning without planning!!! So here is a true pannukakku recipe from my husbands Finnish grandmother!

The Supplies

Pannukakku

4 eggs (beaten)

1 cup milk

1 cup flour
1 tbs sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup butter

Directions

Step 2

1. With a mixer, blend eggs, flour, milk, sugar and salt until batter is smooth and free of chunks.

2. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.

3. Preheat oven to 475.

4. In a 9x13 pan add the butter and place in the oven until the butter is melted. 

5. Remove pan and add the batter

Step 4

6. Bake on the lowest rack for 10-12 minutes until the the middle is set. It will rise WAY above the sides and the middle will be extremely puffy but let it sit for a minute when you pull it out of the oven and it will deflate a lot.

7. Enjoy! His grandma suggests to squeeze lemon, sprinkle with powdered sugar and fresh berries! I used some jam that my dad made and Nicholas used regular pancake syrup!

Step 5

Fresh out of the oven! Already deflating

Finnish-ed Product.. lol

 

Definitely better then any recipe we have tried in the past! 

German Pancakes

This morning I was looking for a nice and easy pin for Sunday morning breakfast. Luckily when I went on pinterest, it was the very first pin on the page! I had made something like this many many years ago in a 7th grade home ec rotation and I hadn't made it since, even tho I rather enjoyed it. So since Husband was on his way home I had him grab a few things, most items tho can be found in your kitchen already.  But here is the original pin. It only needs to cook for 20 minutes in the oven.

My directions are going to be rather vague since the post shows it step by step. Just need eggs, milk, flour, sugar, salt, butter, and powdered sugar if you fancy it.

I used soymilk because I don't like cows milk...the smell just gets to me. It turned out the same in my opinion.

So first you preheat the oven, then mix everything but the butter and powder sugar..the butter is used in the pan to keep it from sticking...although, we had a bit of sticking.

Monster Mountain Cake!

Starting to Rise

Its cool to watch the batter rise, once it leave the over and starts to cool, it will flatten though.

I served it with blueberries, strawberries and bananas. Oh, and a little extra powdered sugar!

I think it turned out very yummy. It does have a thick eggy texture. Its pretty weird, but pretty yummy.The edges remind me of french toast. Overall, great recipe and very easy!