Mommy makes whoopie (pies, that is)

Whoopie pies were on the agenda the other night. I try and make a batch every once in a while to freeze for a quick snack. In fact, I don’t think we’ve ever eaten them the normal way. Gabriella calls them ice cream sandwiches cos they eat them straight out of the freezer. I make them teeny as well. Bite sized as opposed the the American dinner plate size. It’s easier to handle and the kids feel they’re getting a real treat when I give them more than one.

I’ve only ever made Martha Stewarts banana whoopie recipe and reduce the sugar. We fill it with chocolate ganache or lemon cream cheese. They freeze really well but we normally finish a double batch in a month but I can only presume they can be frozen longer. They thaw well enough too.

Ready for the freezer.

Cake!

We were running so late this morning that I gave my children cake for breakfast. Cake! (don’t judge me!) Albeit it was chocolate zucchini cake, it was cake. Even gabriella piped up with “We don’t eat cake in the morning, mummy!” and I replied “Shush, there’s vegetables in it!”.

Spinning around…

We made pinwheel sandwiches for gia’s school lunch today. She had fun flattening the bread and rolling them up. I forgot to take a photo but it was pretty. I put a little note in, scribbled on some wax paper. I wonder if she’ll notice. 🙂

She’s been walking up on her own the last few days. Talk about disaster yesterday, I forgot to give her her lunchbox and by the time I managed to pull over she was in floods of tears! I felt sick with guilt all day! Anyway, I walked up with her today to carry her school books and a bunch of older girls said hello to her and I could hear them talking about how cute she was. It kinda made me feel better about the school to find the older kids so friendly.

 

UPDATE: I really wish I had taken a photo of my little pinwheel sandwiches this morning. I asked Gabriella this evening if she liked her sandwich and she said that her teacher took her lunchbox from her to show the teacher’s assistant and said she could eat them all up. Cute! 🙂

Sandwich bread man (woman)

The heart shaped eggs were good in theory and we taste tested them when we got home last night and they were lovely. But this morning I asked Gia to take a bite to make sure she would eat it and she said it was “funny on my Tongue”. So out the window that went (though not literally, I ate them). Gabriella’s lunch today was ta da!>>

A chicken and cheese sandwich woman. Hooray for cookie cutters. And back to the drawing board for portable meals I can prepare in advance that my child won’t turn her nose up at the next day. 🙂

Next on my agenda is a savoury whoopie pie type concoction. Need recipes!

We <3 eggs

 

 

 

 

Today marks the first full school day for Gabriella. Last week, they were only on from 9:30-12 so lunch wasn’t too much of a worry. I sent her off today with 2 mini brioche ham and cheese sandwiches. She loves “yellow bread”! But that’s about all my school lunch repertoire consists off. It also made me realise just how limited Gabriella’s diet is. Very healthy, but very boring. So I’m on a quest, not only to make fun  and healthy school lunches but to expand the variety of foods she eats. (And all this without becoming a bento mom. They’re pretty to look at and I would LOVE to make them, but the day I have time to cut out eyes and noses out of vegetables is the day I should be well, doing anything else!)

 

So, anyway, my first experiment is Scrambled Egg Muffins. No recipe needed, it’s just Scrambled Eggs. With stuff. Baked in a muffin tin. That’s it! 🙂

My only concession to fun was using the heart shaped silicone muffin molds. We will taste test it tonight and if it’s a success, it’s going in the lunch box tomorrow. Easy peasy.