Matt and I were right in the middle of writing love letters to each other. We were at The Art of Marriage conference last weekend, sitting quietly in a room by ourselves, doing our assigned project. I was writing my heart-felt thoughts to him, reliving on paper about the time we met and about the qualities he had that attracted me to him. It was beautiful. I was teary eyed and feeling nostalgic.
And that’s when it hit me.
I’d forgotten to put the sucanat in the Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins I had baked for the kids to wake up to that morning.
Why? Why does my brain work this way? We will probably never know. But somewhere in between writing “I love what a great daddy you are to our boys” and “Thank you for showing your love to me in so many ways” my brain shifted all the way back home and I began thinking about what the boys might be doing and if they were okay and if they’d found the muffins I’d made for them for breakfast.
And somewhere within those few seconds of thinking about muffins, I thought through the steps I’d taken and recognized that I had not gotten out the jar of sucanat (sugar), opened it or measured it out. The muffins were made of flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt, milk, eggs and coconut oil…no sucanat. I’d thrown in a few chocolate chips, which may have added a little bit of sweetness, but probably not enough.
I didn’t mean to gasp, right there while we were writing our love letters. I didn’t mean to take Matt away from his “You’re so beautiful, I’m so glad God put you in my life” phrases. But I couldn’t help it.
Our sweet silence was shattered as I blurted, “I forgot to put sucanat in the muffins for the boys!”
There was obviously nothing we could do about the muffins during that moment, so we had a little chuckle together about how quickly the boys might have realized that the muffins weren’t at all sweet and what else they’d found to eat. Then we carried on with our letter writing.
At home later we found exactly what we had expected: Four muffins with one bite taken out of each of them and all of the rest of the muffins still on the tray.
So the next question of course was, “What should we do with all of these muffins?” We just didn’t have the heart to throw them away. Surely they could be salvaged somehow.
Matt was the one who had the brilliant idea. He’s always the brilliant one (and I may or may not have told him that in his love letter). He suggested that we make my yummy hot fudge sauce recipe to drizzle over the top of the muffins to add some sweetness.
Perfect. I made some hot fudge, whipped some cream, and we had one of the most delicious breakfast treats ever.
It was a perfect chocolate fix, making us all hope that I will forget the sucanat in these muffins again sometime. :)
Oh, and by the way…all that love letter stuff I put in this post for you to read? All those phrases were cheesy ones that I just made up off the top of my head. What? You really think I’d tell you what we wrote in our love letters to each other? Yeah, I don’t think so. :)
Hi Laura. Have to say that I love your blog. You make me laugh. Reading this post made me thankful that I am not the only one that would do things like that.LOL. You did a great job in fixing the muffins. I would make them that way all the time.Glad to hear that you were able to finish the letters.You are very much thought of. You have gotten me back in the kitchen. Thank you
Jean
That is too funny! I did that very thing once and realized as I was pouring them into the muffin tins. So, I did what anyone would do- I just added a spoonful of sugar to each muffin and mixed it in the cup. I liked your idea of totally not wasting the muffin. My friend would have also said that it is truffle time.
It’s so funny that you did this… because I literally just did the same exact thing yesterday! Fortunately I managed to remember I’d left the sucanat out of my chocolate muffins before I cooked them… but not before I put them in the muffin cups! Despite all my grumbling while scraping the batter back into the bowl, they turned out fantastic. :)
ummmmm….YUM! I had a dessert with the same problem. I tried to make a glaze and pour it over. Didn’t work too well. I am glad you saved the day supermomma!
When forgetting ingredients the trick is: don’t tell anyone, particularly the kids! Quick fix – when the muffins come out of the oven, dip the top in melted butter, then dip into sugar. It will harden into a sweet, crusty top. With chocolate muffins, you could even dip them into cocoa/sugar mix after the butter.
Great idea Matt!! I bet the kids ate the muffins up fast.
And here I am loathing to make any meal that requires more than one pan…. Yikes!
Ok, so I made the muffins last week (of course mine aren’t healthy like yours though) and I thought they weren’t very sweet (at least not as much as I was thinking they would be). The kids aren’t eating them that fast because of that so I was thinking about putting icing on them (like cupcakes). I have some home made chocolate syrup in the fridge so maybe I will have to try that on top of them. Thanks for the idea.
Yesterday I forgot to put the yeast in the breadmaker. After 2 hours of waiting for the little buzzer on the machine I looked in to see this floppy blob of dough (I was going to make hamburger rolls). It was very sad and there was no rescuing that blob. It was just all those wasted ingredients. So sad. I have many times forgotten an ingredient or two.
Also, we are doing The Art of Marriage in our Sunday school class. We really liked the first session.
mmmmmmm Chocolate… lol
I almost left the baking soda out of my cookies just now. I’m sure that the kids I work with would just love paper-thin cookies ;).
I let my toddler help me make a loaf of zucchini bread on Sunday. He poured a 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour on the floor instead of in the bowl, and I had to quickly clean it up before he decided it was something fun to play in. After I cleaned it up I went back to making the bread and completely forgot how many cups I had already used, so I took a guess. Unfortunately I guessed wrong and that was one tough loaf of bread. Our fix? Well, the dogs sure seemed to enjoy that loaf of bread. At least someone did.
You make me smile!!
Thank you.