Mumpad has the muffin tray out

Hi. mum.

This is not a serious post - I'll be back with those.

Something with chocolate. My greatest loss re pastry was with real croissants, so
I think you need to add chocolate. I suppose that doesn't make sense, but in the context of real ones, you'll understand.
Not that real ones need chocolate.

Ok, I'm boxing myself in. I know perfectly ordinary people in my neighborhood made good enough croissants, and that it does not take a machine scene to do it.

There was one place that made fabulous ones.

I'm a little crabby. I haven't tasted a good croissant for at least ten years.

choc ripple muffins sounds good. Ive placed an order.

banana

with big gobs of fresh homemade strawberry jam in the middle

got anything gluten-free?

The management and staff value all our wonderful customers
Advance notice may be required to cater for special dietary requirments.

Banana we can do.

Bananas are $12.00/ kilo (Queensland floods/cyclones) here at present. You'll need a bank loan to pay for the muffins

Ps non for setanta. still waiting for him to help move furniture

I'll just have a banana, hold the muffin...

you got a bar?

a bar?

That'll be $3.75 plus tax please

it's almost midnight here, mr roo.

jack black, neat please.

hold the small talk.

Hold the small talk gotcha.

Neat jack, top shelf, comin up.

for what it's worth, I ain't figgered out how to make gluten free muffins either.

but trader joe's makes some kickin' snickerdoodles...

give my best to mum.

I'll have the healthiest one going.
What does Mumpad recommend?

For you Msolga we have a choice of blue berry or blueberry
with pink (blueberry) icing.

Gluten-Free Snickerdoodles
Ingredients:

* 1/2 cup shortening (I used margarine)
* 3/4 cup sugar
* 1 egg
* 1 tsp vanilla flavouring
* 1/2 cup potato starch
* 3/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp cornstarch
* 1/4 tsp baking soda
* 1 tsp baking powder
* 1 tsp xanthan gum
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 2 Tbsp water

Cinnamon-Sugar Mixture:

* 2 Tbsp sugar mixed with
* 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, cream together shortening and sugar. Add egg and vanilla flavouring. Mix well. Add potato starch, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder, xanthan gum, salt and water. Mix well to eliminate any lumps in the dough. Dough will be sticky. Lightly oil hands or spray them with nonstick spray to better handle dough. Shape into small balls, using a slightly-rounded teaspoon of dough for each cookie. Roll in sugar/cinnamon mixture.
2. Place on lightly greased baking sheet and press each ball to an even thickness of about 1/3 inch. Bake for 10-12 minutes. A single cookie should be removed at the shortest-baking time to test for doneness. Browning is not a good indicator for these cookies.

Makes about 3 dozen.

that's a frightening amount of starch.

think I'll pass.

trader joes is only 200 miles away...

OK, I'll have the blueberry, then.
Hard decision to make!
Oh & minus the pink icing (or any icing) is fine.
Thank you, Mumpad!

Muffins are up

My god, I can practically smell them, and the smell ain't bad at all.