...back to school party...

...strange school started them back on a Friday... but I decided was great opportunity for after school feast to celebrate with friends... muffins, afghans, popcorn, juice and fruit.... we gobbled it all!! ...think I'm going to make it a traditional feast day... so fun...

...back to school...

 ...I remember learning to sew zips in... pencil cases were project #1... this year my boy asked for blue... his current favourite colour... and as you can see most his school supplies are blue too...

...I love covered books... usually use recycled wrapping paper, but this year one of the larger books we used an old poster that had a small rip... he was very excited about that one...

...muffins...

 ... I have at at least two blueberry muffin recipes... but this is our fav... came from a library picture story-book from Whakatane library... a modified Little Red Riding Hood story... so we call them Little Red Riding Hood Muffins (although my son was too young to remember the story now!)....

...this version I used mixed berries, vanilla essence and flaked almonds as well as sunflower seeds... and they work just as well with marg or butter... if it wasn't for the sugar they'd almost be healthy!!

Little Red Riding Hood Muffins

125g melted butter/marg

2 eggs

1c sugar

1/4-1/2 teaspoon almond essence

1c wholemeal flour

1c white flour

1teaspoon BP

1/2 teaspoon salt

1-2c blueberries

1/4-1/2c sunflower seeds

Mix butter, eggs, sugar, essence
Add flours, BP, salt.
Stir until just combined
Gently stir in seeds and berries
Spoon into lined muffin tin (very sticky and tricky to get out of pan otherwise)
Bake at 180 degrees Celcius (350 F) for 20-25mins.
Enjoy!!