make your family happy with treats

By Ashton

I think a great thing to do for your family is make treats for them.  Treats always make everyone happy!

I wanted to experiment with cooking, but my mom doubted me. She thought the chocolate filling in these would just sink into the rest of the batter but she finally let me do it, and she did not regret it!

Make these with your family!

Ashton's Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Cupcakes

Put the following in your cookie mixer:

½ cube softened butter

½ cup flax seed

1 egg

2-3 mashed ripe bananas

mix together

1 ½ cups white flour (or 1 cup of white and ½ c. of whole wheat)

1 c. sugar

½ tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

½ tsp ground cloves

2 c. oatmeal (quick)

mix together

In a small, microwavable bowl, put in ¼ cups of chocolate chips. Add about ½ tbsp milk. Cook in microwave for 30 sec and then mix it together to make thick chocolaty stuff. Get a cupcake pan. Put a paper cupcake cup in each hole. Put a couple spoonfuls of the batter in, then put a tsp of chocolate on that, then another tablespoon of batter on top of that. Repeat with each cupcake. 

Bake at 350 (325 for convection ovens) for 12-14 min. Don't overcook or they get dried out!  Makes 12 cupcakes.

** You can just make these as cookies instead and put spoonfuls of batter on a cookie sheet and put in chocolate chips instead of doing the chocolate filling.  Then you need to cook them for less time.