I'm So Behind!

I'm sorry that I'm so behind already! With classes and homework and my sister's wedding IN ONE WEEK, I've just let myself get behind. But I'm here now, and that's all that really matters, right?

Well, last week in the kitchen we had a pretty great day. We made sour cream muffins with streusel topping, banana bread, chocolate chip cookies and sugar cookies with icing. It was a very full day!

Our muffins turned out quite yummy, but the streusel wasn't so great (more on streusel in the next post!)...it tasted good but wasn't the right texture...too doughy.

Our banana bread was laughable! Ha! There wasn't enough bananas for everyone to have the full amount...well for our group to have the full amount. A couple other groups donated some banana to us, but we still had only about a third of the full amount called for. No problem, Chef said, just cut down the rest of the recipe. So we did....everything except the nuts. Right after I had poured the nuts into the batter, I remembered that we did not cut down the amount of nuts. Ugh! So we had some really nutty banana bread! Or as we liked to call it "Nut Banana Bread." Since we had everything else correct and the nuts don't change the structure of the bread anyway, we still came out with good bread. Only, you'd have to be nuts about nuts to eat it.

Our chocolate chip cookies were delicious-the formula called for too many chocolate chips so they were perfect! We had to rush them so we didn't get even chocolate chip distribution, but considering everything that could be wrong with a cookie, we were happy to take that! We didn't get to finish our sugar cookies due to time, but I'm sure they would have been good too.