Organic Samm

I’m now staring and staring at this box of Green’s Lemon Cake Pre-mix. Then. I remembered i dont have milk and only maybe a quarter stick of butter left. How to bake cake tomorrow?

I just had this urge to bake some brownies today. Hubby bought a box of Pilsbury Chocolate Walnut Brownie Mix and it’s sitting pretty inside the kitchen cabinet. I’ve not baked brownies for a long time. As it’s the weekend and i’m not going anywhere, the kids will be thrilled with the brownie.

Here, you can see my brand new Foodbuzz scraper (is that what you call it?). Thank you, Foodbuzz. There’s an apron too, but i’m not wearing it. Too precious, lol. All the contents of the box emptied into to Philips Cucina Mixer’s mixing bowl and i’m ready to go.

I used two eggs instead of one this time. According to the instructions on the back of the box, this will yield a more cake-like texture. I have to bake it for an extra ten minutes or so. The last time i baked this Pilsbury Brownie Mix, it got burnt slightly at the top. So, i covered the 8×8 Pyrex Bowl with aluminium foil.

The Chocolate Brownie was still somewhat undercooked when i took it out of the Philips Toaster Oven. As Malcolm couldnt wait to eat it, i cut some of the cooked part for him and placed it back into the toaster oven for a further ten minutes uncovered. Here’s my happy kid enjoying the brownie that his Cooking Mama made.

It’s easy to bake Brownies in a toaster oven. It can be done with slight adjustments as each toaster oven i different. You just have to learn how yours work and make the most out of it. It wont be as good as a conventional oven, but on a scale of 1 to 10, i’ll give it an 8. Fair enough? Your turn to give it a try.

I’m not new to baking from ready-mixes. Far too lazy to go dig for recipes sometimes. That’s why whenever i see something new on the shelf, i’ll grab a box or two. And this is the box of Krusteaz Lemon Poppyseed Muffin Mix i bought some time back.

Here’s how the packet of muffin mix looks like out of the box.

I dont have any muffin baking cups and i cant find one that can fit into my Philips toaster oven at the malls either. What to do. The creative one in me saw some unused papercups inside the kitchen cabinet and decided to put them to good use. They were far to tall and here’s me measuring them so that i can make them shorter.

Here are the papercups cut to the size i want.

I’m only using half the contents. So, i halfed whatever’s written at the back of the box.

Pre-heat the Philips toaster oven at 230 degrees Celcius.

Cracked the gg into the Krusteaz Muffin Mix.

Fold everything up lightly and poured the poppyseed into the muffin mix.

Spoon the lemon poppyseed muffin mix into the prepared papercups half full. Yield around 9 small muffins.

All it takes is about 15 minutes and…………

TADAAAAA…… my lovely Lemon Poppyseed muffins are ready!!!! YUMMMMMM…….. If you’ve not baked muffins in papercups using a toaster oven before, believe you me, it can be done.