It could have all worked out, if only Mama hadn’t been yammering away, shooting her mouth off when she picked us up at daycare last month. She had her panties all in a twist about these doggy eggs and she told Miss Karrie about them. WELL! Miss Karrie was just as excited about the eggies as Mama was – and promptly ordered a whole bunch (500!) in Easter Baskets for her client appreciation day today – an Easter Egg hunt!
Well, it was all well and good for Mama to TALK about eggies, now she had to make them! BOL…let’s see you work you’re way outta this one lady.
Well, Mama set right to work. You should have seen the hot mess she made – flour everywhere, molding eggs by hand, trying to figure out just *how* she was going to fulfill this extravagant promise. The first batch she rolled into egg shapes, but they didn’t cook in the middle. The next batch she used an egg cookie cutter – and they were GREAT, but it felt a little like cheating. She started to get that harried, too many sleepless nights look – hollow eyes, pale skin, that wild look in her eyes of desperation. Just how was she going to do this? It was a real open snout/insert paw moment.
Finally – it came to her and she started making peanut butter eggs – adorable little sandwich cookies shaped like an egg and dipped in yogurt coating. YUM! They’re not bad eh!
But alot of work. Mama says they wouldn’t have been so bad without the yogurt coating on top.
WITHOUT THE YOGURT COATING? What the bark?! But Mama! That’s what made them pretty!
Wanna try em?
Ingredients:
1/3 cup natural, unsweetened peanut butter
1/2 mashed banana
1 1/2 cup ground oatmeal
1 egg
1 tablespoon honey
Filling:
1/4 cup natural, unsweetened peanut butter
Coating:
Yogurt melting chips
Natural food colouring
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
Stir together peanut butter, banana, egg & honey. Stir in oatmeal. (Add extra oatmeal, if necessary, to make a fry, unsticky dough).
Using a half – tablespoon or a tablespoon (you know the cute plastic egg shaped ones?) form egg halves. (I had to beat the spoon against the side of the bowl to get the dough out.)
Now…I must say…dos look yummy!
Yum Yum! We have been eating a lot of hard boiled eggs! Mom tried different kinds of natural coloring…not all of them worked out, so we got to eat the ugly eggs…YAY!Wyatt and Stanzie
Well those look great – inquiring minds want to know – who got to eat the rejects? Were they good? They sure looked good . .
That’s quite the undertaking! 500 eggs?!? I’m tired just thinking about it.
500 EGGS???? Oh, you have to update us on how this one turns out! BOL (and share the “rejects”, ok?) Happy Easter!
ok , question from momma the old baker. Would wrapping the spoon in saran wrap or the like have made it easier to “unmold them”? Or even coating the shaping spoon with over spray [with a fab olive oil spray, all natural.]And, my cheat when I have a large amount of things to coat or dip… is to set out a cookie cooling rack with a catch tray underneath, put the treats on top and squirt coating from a pastry bag [ziplock with a hole in a corner] catching and reusing what’s on the bottom until it’s all gone…. This comes from having experienced the insanity of a Valentine’s day “heart-a-thon”… don’t ask… to this day heart shaped anything makes me twinge… But I am duly impressed. 500. whoa. serious whoa. Silvieon4’s note…. all she made me today is breakfast… that’s all I am saying..
Silve on 2 – I love you. What a BRILLIANT idea the saran wrap is! Ohhhhh, I will have to try that! I did try the olive oil spray (I have one of the old fashioned oil spray pumps from the 50s that used to belong to my great grandmother) and it was a bust. If I was coating them again, I would definitely thin the yogurt a bit and pour it over them, as opposed to dipping *fur sure*. You always learn SO MUCH when you try a new recipe!
cool, those things sure are looking tastyBenny & Lily
Wow! What an amazing undertaking.
How cool – you’re amazing for getting it all done!!
My dogs would love these!