Use Candy the Right Way

This year I have spent more time at home than any other.  The fact is that the COVID-19 Pandemic has forced me to stay home and in many ways, it has been very hard.  But I will say that I learned a whole lot of things by staying at home and reading more.  I have also read lots more cookbooks that have led me to expand my baking.  This has not always been a good thing and my wife and definitely vouch for my failure to make some good baking many times.  But I did learn how to do some very interesting recipes that ended up being pretty healthy.

 

One day I was finding that I simply needed a snack and that the lack of groceries in our home was making it hard.  The shopping during COVID-19 has been complicated and we try to only make a single trip to the grocery stores once a month.  That means that sometimes we run out of normal baking goods and to stay safe we simply live without them.  So being in a snack-filled feeling I knew that I needed to make something for myself and my family.

I was looking around and I didn't see a whole lot of normal baking items.  We had no flour and no sugar in the house.  That is pretty much the basic ingredients for all sweet baking of any kind.  So I decided to branch out and work on some different ideas.

 

Google was my first idea I searched for cookies with no sugar or flower.  It led me to many recipes that took me forever to decipher.  It was looking at code because the ads and the articles were like 15 pages long for a single recipe.  It made me pretty angry and I switched up.  I decided to look in youtube for an easy cookie that I could use candy boxes of what we had and oatmeal and bananas.  I know it was pretty limited, but I found a few videos.  I found the shortest one because I was getting hungry or maybe even, "Hangry" But I saw one that was only 5 minutes long and I put it on.

 

The recipe called for oatmeal, vanilla extract your favorite candy boxes of treats, and bananas.  It also asked for an egg and some butter.  I knew this was the one worth trying.  I decided to grab a bowl and start with the ingredients. I took two bananas and pealed them.  Then I added the egg, sweet treats, and oatmeal.  I slowly put the butter and a dash of vanilla in and mixed it up.  One other thing it asked for was a pinch of salt.  Then I turned on the oven.

 

It only wanted the oven to be on for 350 and about 10 minutes depending on the sweet treat burning in the heat.  So I watched it carefully and pulled it out.  The cookie reminded me of an oatmeal raisin from the look.  It was a big more soft so I knew it needed to sit and cool for a bit longer.  It turns out that this was a really good cookie in the end.  It was a bit more healthy than other cookies as well. But it was made with lots of oatmeal and thus lots of fiber. So, know your own body and eat with care.