What a horrible day weather wise it has been today! Not to mention the mugginess!

It must have been all the cake making and baking shows on the food channel this afternoon but I was overcome with a desire to do some baking Having organised a whole lot of  recipes I had pulled out of magazines (Yay for Mission: Organised Home)  I sat down and flicked through until I found a couple of recipes

that I had all the ingredients for.

So first up was a recipe for wholemeal banana & chocolate muffins and as an extra dose of yumminess I added a chunk of chocolate in the centre of each muffin. Hopefully when we eat the muffins we will get some gooey goodness

Wholemeal Banana & Chocolate Muffins

The 2nd thing I made, is actually still in the oven. It is a bit of a concoction so hopefully it turns out alright!

Apricot & Raisin Loaf

6 apricot halves, chopped (I used tinned apricots)

1 cup raisins

1/4 cup currants

1 cup of boiling water

1 tsp baking soda

1 tbsp butter/lite olive oil spread

1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

1 egg, beaten

1/4 cup chopped nuts

1 tsp vanilla essence

2 cups wholemeal flour

1 tsp baking powder

Preheat oven to 180 deg C. Put apricots, raisins, currants, water, baking soda & butter into a bowl. Stir until butter has melted. Beat sugar, egg, nuts and vanilla into raisin mixture. Sift flour (add husks back in after sifting) and baking powder into mixture, stirring to combine. Pour into a greased 22cm loaf tin and bake for about 45 minutes.

Apricot & Raisin Loaf

It’s cooling at the moment so I’ll post a verdict a bit later

In other news; we have a crawler! DS started crawling on Monday night and luckily it was while both of us were at home so we saw our baby boy reach a major milestone. Yep, I had tears in my eyes as I watched him make his first fumbling movements towards independence from me *sigh*.