No heat Thursday continues with healthy butterfingers.
In the spirit of the no heat month theme, I knew that I wanted a healthy cookie in there as well.
Well, I say cookie.
I saw this recipe for healthy butterfingers with 4 ingredients.
Today’s calendar was jam-packed with meetings. I knew this. I also knew that simple would be best.
You see, the sole in-person class of the semester is tomorrow. This will make my second 97-mile round-trip of the week. There is tons of reading for my three classes and I knew I wouldn’t have much brain space for a complicated make.
Enter the healthy butterfinger.
Mix together 3 c pulverized corn flakes, 1/3 c maple syrup. 1 c peanut butter.
Portion out onto a cookie sheet with parchment paper. In the recipe, they get all fancy with shapes. I definitely do not have the brain space for that, I used the smallest cookie scoop.
I scooped one and a half cookie sheets worth of small balls. Into the freezer to harden.
While this was happening, I was listening and engaging with not one but two meetings, one right after the other.
Oops, gotta leave to get the flowers for the awards ceremony.
Got the flowers, got to the awards ceremony, emceed the awards ceremony, gave out the four healthcare and nursing awards.
I told you my day was jam-packed.
But, Kate, what about the 4th ingredient in the butterfingers?
While driving home to bathe the now-frozen butterfingers in chocolate, I listened to yet another meeting. This one was about the hospital and was exciting. When I got home, I hurried inside to continue listening to the meeting, while jotting down what I remembered during my 10-minute drive home and taking notes on the rest of the meeting.
It isn’t even noon!
After the meeting, I dug out my double boiler and started melting chocolate chips for the aforementioned enrobing of the butterfingers. It was going swimmingly until I ran out of chocolate and added additional chocolate chips.
The chocolate promptly seized on me. I dumped that chocolate and started over.
Now I am out of chocolate chips (how did that happen?) and 90% of the butterfingers are covered.
I just put the naked ones into the container with the others. I am sure that someone will want them without chocolate. If not, I will retrieve them from the hospital because I will eat them out of the freezer as a treat.
This make is very fragile and does not like being at room temperature. I quickly made an “In Fridge” sign for the drawer.
That was my day.
Lessons learned- use candiquik to coat the butterfingers. Standing over a double boiler is HOT.
The healthy butterfingers are good, though.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 