Scrumptious Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins

Looking for a great fall recipe to feed the munchkins something other than munchkins?

Try this recipe out and let me know what you think....

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix together in large bowl:
3 1/3 cup of flour (AP or whole wheat)
2 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup white sugar (I know, usually it's considered a wet ingredient)
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg (fresh if you have it)
1/4 tsp ground ginger

In second bowl mix:
1 cup oil
2/3 cup orange juice
1 can (15 ounces) pumpkin puree
4 eggs

Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, mixing well.
Last, add 2/3 cup mini chocolate chips (I like mini ones better, since they provide more even distribution of chocolate to muffin batter ratio)

USE MUFFIN LINERS!!!!!!!!!!!! They make cleaning the tin so much easier and quicker, and you don't have to worry about it between the batches.

Also, one of my favorite tools of baking is the 1 ounce cookie scoop.  This is a perfect application for even muffin management.

Bake 20-25 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.

This recipe makes approximately 80 mini muffins.  It sounds like a lot.  But by the time the second batch was in the oven baking, the first batch of 24 was amazingly down to 5, mostly between the two boys.

These muffins are rich, and pretty healthy I think (minus the oil).  They make a great on the go breakfast or snack for busy mornings.  So if you make them over the weekend, they might cover you a couple of days while you hit snooze one more time.

I'm Baaaaaaack.....

So I had (not intentionally) taken a hiatus from writing for many reasons.  Biggest one, life.  Kids being a large part of that.  OK, not large, but all encompassing.  Energy, or lack there of, due to the previous two reasons.  Desire, again not having it because the Energy went to entertaining the kids.  You get the picture....

So now that the summer passed without much more than a blink of an eye, I am back into a routine and I want to get back to writing.

In the upcoming posts I have a ton of products, games, places and ideas to share including recipes, Think Fun game reviews, Planet Box and Kiwi Crate.  Maybe a spot or two on life with Hermy and Crabby.  And how you too can become One Tough Muddy Warrior Mom (also called "Bring it").

So if you care to share in my thought process then be on the look out for my rants, as I figure I might as well purge them before sanity loses the battle in my head :)

As Boog was reading as I typed, he just questioned, "You have a battle going on in your head???"  "Yes, Honey," I answered, "I always do."

Goodnight iPad

As I passed the adult section in the library, about to let the boys check out their umpteen books, I stopped and giggled.  Oh,  I am soooo bringing this home.

(click on the book above to watch the story)

If your household is anything like mine, there are enough electronics to start a small Mac army.  And at least one copy of Goodnight, Moon, which frankly I don't particularly enjoy, but the kids do.  So if you have read about the lady whispering hush, the comb and the bowl full of mush to the point you want to huck the bowl full of mush at her, try Goodnight iPad by Ann Droyd.  Note the author's name.

There is no longer a woman whispering hush.

There is no bowl of mush. (why would you say good night to it anyway?????)

Just a frustrated woman telling all the people in her family to shut off the thousands of electronic devices and go to bed.

I would put this adult children's parody in a category with Go the F to Sleep, just without the Samuel L. Jackson, umm, quality. 

For a laugh, get the book for yourself or for a friend, or at least an electronic-obsessed coworker.