

Much like a pizza, I enjoy pretty much any topping/craft. Except scrapbooking - it's like black olives. So, this is a place I can keep track of everything, including my life. Maybe writing it all down in one spot will make me feel like I've accomplished something.
Chewy Granola Cookies
yum! You can sub the all purpose flour with whole wheat, or sub the oil with butter, or the wheat germ with wheat or oat bran. I try not to go too overboard with the 'healthy' or the kids won't touch them. Making them with the chocolate chips though means these disappear. Fast. Oh, and a note of caution: if you make them with wheat bran and aren't used to the whole bran thing, don't eat more than a few at a time. IYKWIM. Dh has BTDT.
Next up:
Cinnamon bun dough recipe:
Put the liquid ingredients in your bread machine first, then add the dry ingredients, except the yeast. Make a well in the dry ingredients then add the yeast in the well. Select the dough cycle & press start.
This time, I melted 1/4 cup of butter, spread it out over the dough rectangle. Then I combined 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup white sugar and about 2 tsp cinnamon in a bowl and sprinkled it over the butter. There is another filling recipe I used to use, where you mix the butter in with the sugar and cinnamon and spread it out, but I found it to be too hard to spread evenly, so I'd increase the amount, then there would be too much filling. So I tried this (spread butter THEN sprinke sugar) other way and it worked out beautifully! Roll up from the wide end. Place in greased pans.
Normally I used my glass pans, but they were holding leftovers in the fridge. Hence the really ugly looking ones lined w/wax paper.
Let rise till double in size - if you do this in a warm spot, it'll take less time. For me, out of the oven takes about an hour. If I turn the oven on for just a bit, then open the door until it's just 'warm' inside. I put the tray in and leave the door open just a crack. It takes about half an hour that way.
After your buns have grown (haha, they will after these yummy treats) take them out of the oven (if that's where you had them) and preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Then bake for 15-20 minutes. ahhhhhhhh, that aroma.
While the buns are baking, assemble the ingredients for the glaze:
Got it:
Mix together:
When the buns come out of the oven (teehee), drizzle the sweet goodness all over them.