Egg Heavy Recipes - dessert first!

Now that we have 8 chickens we get a lot of eggs, we spread the eggs around the family so everyone benefits from their goodness but we often have quite a few eggs around to use up. 

Here are some egg heavy recipes I will be looking at trying soon, of course dessert first!:

Flour less Chocolate Cake
Bean Chocolate Cake

These recipes are from the BackYardChicken forum,

OLD FASHION POUND CAKE  

3 c. sugar1 lb. butter, softened10 eggs4 c. plain flour2 tsp. baking powder2 tsp. vanilla
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Measure and sift flour, baking powder and dash of salt. Add flour to mixture in several parts. Stop mixer, add about 1/3 of the flour, start mixer back slowly, then mix fast JUST UNTIL MIXED. Repeat until dry ingredients are all incorporated. Scrape down sides after each mixing. Put in 10 inch tube pan that has been greased and floured. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Cool in pan for a few minutes before removing.
This makes a FABULOUS chocolate pound cake. Add 1/4 cup milk after the butter and eggs are creamed, and 1/4 cup of good cocoa, mix it in with the flour.

Bread pudding 

Two cups of stale bread ripped into chunks put a a shallow casserole, 

Mix 4-5 eggs (depending on size), 

3/4 sugar (adjust to your liking or use different sweetner), 

1 cup cream, milk, half and half or almond milk. 

 Fruit of your choice, chopped apples (if using apples I'll mix in some cinnamon), raisins, currents, dried cranberries, cherries, pineapple (if using pineapple I'll add some coconut).  Nuts are a great addition about a half cup chopped.  Slivered almonds go great with cherries, walnuts go great with the apples...whatever you like...

pour mixture over bread and bake in a 350 oven about an hour or until browned and puffy.

The beauty of this recipe besides being quick and easy to assemble is that it has unlimited variations, corn bread can be used as well as Italian or French bread, challah...ect.  Stale bread is better but I've used fresh when in a pinch with good results. 

the amount of bread, eggs and cream obviously vary depending on the size of your casserole dish.  this is a basic amount for a casserole dish that would serve 4.  Feel free to play around with all the amounts as it's pretty hard to screw this recipe up.

Besides being a great dessert, it's a decent breakfast that is easily warmed up in the mornings.

Such a lovely weekend

We had a great weekend, Andy worked most of it but the bits we did do I actually started to take pictures of once again!

Andy loves home made hamburgers, so seen as I am trying to get more creative in the kitchen and use more whole some ingredients I said why not!!

I would like to play around with recipes/instructions once more before I bring them here as they were tasty but too huge for me!! 500g of mince in that picture, which makes 1/4lbers but that's just too big for me!

Andy and Isabelle were also playing peek-a-boo chase, an absolute favourite in our house at the moment. Although sometimes Isabelle just runs towards to you as opposed to away :)

 

Not a craving as such

I am kinda in love with cookies at the moment....

Not great considering baby doesn't need the gunk and I certainly don't after not being that active for 9 months.

Still, I thought I would share why I seem to be so obsessed at the moment.....

Potato chip cookies - I am such a savory girl at heart that the thought of these just makes me so excited!
Same for Emma's Chocolate chip and sea salt cookies. They just look so delish I want to eat them all!!

Trouble is I know if I make one batch not only will I eat them all, I know I wont be able to stop myself from making them.

I did give in and make a more traditional batch which turned into a tray bake!! Oooops.

Tasted good though!!

Home made goodness

In my humble opinion, there is nothing like my mister coming home to an almost cooked dinner ready for him to enjoy after a hard day at work.

I love having things ready for him, I love taking care of him and really I just love being able to do these things. We are so fortunate that I can take a decent break from working whilst this baby is a baby and I get to spend my time making sure both their needs are met.

Today I used this lovely recipe to whip up a quick batch of flap jacks just because I had the ingredients in and it meant not only did my lovely have a home cooked meal - only sweat and sour chicken with noodles - he also got a home made afters.

I love that flapjack can be cling filmed and taken to be enjoyed anywhere! Plus the smell when its cooking .... might just be my favourite.