I found that one of the best things to do is make sure you have dinner already taken care of, that way you don't have to worry about it too much during the day. I had soaked some beans the night before and in the morning put them in the crockpot with some ham and water.
My list for Baking Day consisted of....
Black bottom muffins
Pumpkin chocolate chip muffins
Waffles
Cornbread muffins
Pumpkin bread
Pumpkin dump cake
Lazy granola
I got through everything on my list but the waffles. I will be making those today. The purpose of the black bottom muffins wasn't necessarily to freeze but to keep my boys from eating the pumpkin chocolate chip muffins that I did plan to freeze. They didn't eat them all so I did end up freezing a dozen black bottom muffins.
The cornbread muffins and pumpkin dump cake were part of our dinner but my husband has been sick and has not had too much of an appetite lately so I ended up freezing some of the cornbread muffins. The dump cake is more of a pumpkin pie type of dessert with a crumb topping. Our older son loves pumpkin pie and really liked this cake but it was not much of a favorite for the rest of them.
After dinner I made two loaves of pumpkin bread and mixed up the lazy granola. Next time I will make sure I have all my ingredients on hand because instead of 7 cups of oats I only had 4 but I still went ahead and made it.
So for my first baking day I ended up freezing 3 1/2 dozen breakfast muffins, 1/2 dozen cornbread muffins, 4 bowls of ham and bean soup, and 2 loaves of pumpkin bread. We also have a pumpkin dump cake and some lazy granola that we will be eating this weekend.
Hopefully I will get my waffles made and froze today and I might even throw in some pancakes.
You can see how other people did on their baking day at Money Saving Mom.
2 comments:
This is a cool idea! I might have to look into it. What do you freeze your goodies in?
You are the woman! That's a lot of baking. I need to try this out, though. I can see how it would come in handy to just pull stuff out of the freezer. :)
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