I'm a lean mean baking machine!!

Mr. R took the girls to church.  I'm a heathen and slept in.  Since I have the house to myself I decided to do some baking so I don't have to buy any goodies this week.  And I had some apples that needed used up that weren't looking so hot. Plus this way I'm not wasting electric to heat the oven for 1 thing.

First, I made baked oatmeal with apples, raisins and brown sugar.  Big R loves this for breakfast and its so easy.

Then, I had bought 2 boxes of red velvet pancakes with cream cheese glaze on clearance for 50 cents each after valentines day from aldi.  I decided to try making cupcakes out of the batter instead and they turned out pretty good.  1 box made 10 cupcakes.  I only used 1 box so I still have another box to use for another day.

While I was using stuff up, I decided to try to make chocolate butter cookies using the recipe here.  I did make a few changes to the recipe using the whole egg instead of just the yolk, 5 tbsp cocoa powder (just to use it all up) and 1 tbsp of vanilla.  This are a little dry but I added the left over cream cheese glaze from the red velvet cup cakes so that helped some.

I wanted to make some strawberry muffins but I ran out of steam... and butter.