 Hey everyone, welcome back to my kitchen and welcome back to another monthly freezer meal prep. We are gonna be tackling some baking today and I am so excited. As usual, I have a variety of different styles of eating and baking. I have some dairy-free options. I have gluten-free options. I have regular recipes. So if you're fine with the sugar and flour, I've got that. I've also got some keto-friendly options. I love to mix it up and give you guys a lot of ideas, especially if you are working with different types of eating or allergies. So this first recipe is definitely a family-friendly one and does not cater to the allergies, but it is so delicious. My girls cannot keep their hands out of these and they are a cookies and cream pudding cookie. When I saw this recipe online, I knew I had to make it and I've actually had the ingredients around for a while. So today I decided to go ahead and tackle it and I definitely think I'll be making them again in the future and then possibly doubling the recipe. Usually whenever I make a recipe for the first time, I don't like to go ahead and double it just because I don't know if everyone will enjoy it or not, but this was one we really enjoyed. And I love making cookies for the freezer because they freeze so well and you all know that I've even done cookie dough. That's another thing that freezes really well. So you could actually make this dough up and then just make it into balls and put it in the freezer and bake the portion sizes that you want at one time. So the recipe is relatively simple. You use an Oreo cookie pudding mix. You've got some of your normal cookie ingredients and then you put white chocolate chips and crush up Oreos into the batter. So you're done mixing it up. It almost looks like ice cream and right at the end I went ahead and just put my hands in and just mixed the chunky ingredients together that way. I would love to hear in the comments your best butter melting hacks when you wanna soften butter really quickly. I saw this one and to be honest, I don't think I did it right or it didn't work very well, but that's to put a hot glass over the stick of butter and let it sit. Let me know your advice in the comments. This next recipe is gluten-free. It's also keto-friendly and it is some cinnamon roll bread and I actually baked it up in my little containers that you all know I use all the time. They have green lids and I decided to go ahead and make it in that because I felt like it might give me a better sized loaf because a lot of times when you make keto or gluten-free bread, it can kind of be a little flat so I thought this would work out better and it really worked perfectly. This bread is not very sweet. The only sweetener is in the swirl part that you layer in with the nutmeg and the cinnamon. So if you enjoy a less sweet bread with some butter on top of it, you will really love this one and it was very simple to put together. It has baking powder in it and it just was easy to whip up and dump into the pans. I wanna thank Thrive Market for sponsoring this portion of today's video. Thrive Market is an online membership-based grocery store on a mission to make healthy living easy and affordable to everyone. You are guaranteed savings. You can shop thousands of best-selling organic foods and natural products below traditional retail prices. Find a better price elsewhere and they will match it. You can get anything from organic kids' products, wine, meat, seafood and frozen veggies shipped right to your door. Before I even get into this haul, I have to say I have never received a package so well-packed. It was literally rolled in this. 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So next I took a cleaning break and just like in the last video, I wanna remind you to clean as you go. I wasn't very good about it this day, but a lot of times I stop and clean dishes in between so I don't end up with a mess at the end. I wanna take a minute and touch on having your kids help in the kitchen. Also, if you are a mom and you have done this and had your children help in the kitchen a lot, I would love to hear your tips and tricks or little jobs that you gave them in the comments below because I'm looking for more things to have the girls help with. I want them to grow up and know how to cook for their families one day and they love this one-on-one time. So we are whipping up some homemade granola bars and this recipe is really awesome because it's gluten-free and it's dairy-free as well. And it also has a little added protein because you do put some almond flour in it and the girls really enjoyed it. It does not have any sugar, so it's sweetened with honey and I just think it's a home run and we'll probably be using it again and being able to add in other mix-in ingredients like cranberries and things like that. This time around, I did just put in the chocolate chips but like I said, I felt like it was such a great consistency. It also didn't make quite as much as I thought which you'll see here in a minute but the girls were having so much fun helping me out and dumping in ingredients. So I actually doubled this recipe and as you can see, it still only made half the sheet size. So the next time, I definitely will need to four times the recipe to make a full sheet size. The recipe does call to put it into a nine by 13 but you all know how much I love making big pans of stuff so that I don't have to make it again for a while and just getting it prepped for the freezer. So these were really fantastic. I just put them into some freezer bags and as always, I encourage you to portion things out for your size family and make sure that it's easy to grab things out. That way, things don't go bad if you pulled out too much out of the freezer. And you can see that I'm on a bit of a strawberry kick in the last prep. When I prepped breakfast stuff, I did a strawberry baked oatmeal which by the way, was amazing. So if you haven't seen that video, definitely go back and check it out but I decided to make some strawberry scones and these are gluten free and keto friendly and they were really easy to make. Although I will say, you wanna follow the instructions really well because you want to actually kind of cut the cream cheese into your almond flour which means you want it to be nice and flaky and whenever I dump the batter out here in a second, you will see that you have to press the batter together because it's flaky but it's kind of a flaky pastry which is the goal here. Then to top it off, the recipe does have an icing recipe along with it but I had these white chocolate chips that were sugar free and left over from something else. So I went ahead and heated them up with a little bit of coconut oil and made a nice white chocolate drizzle over these which was really yummy. All right, so this recipe again is not very allergen friendly but it is family friendly and that's one of our absolute favorite cookies and that is maple cookies with the homemade maple icing and I just can't get enough of these. They're so good and they have a buttermilk that goes into the batter and it just makes them so delicious but as always when I have flops, when I have mistakes in the kitchen, I love to share them with you and this day I don't know what happened even going back in my footage here and counting my flour, it was correct. I just have no idea what happened but for some reason these came out super flat and normally they're very fluffy cookies but either way they still taste good and sometimes you have flops. So if you have something that doesn't turn out well, don't get discouraged. You can definitely still either remake it or you'll maybe be able to figure out what you did wrong the next time and just because I make YouTube videos doesn't mean that everything always turns out perfectly. In this video, I also did not speed up much of anything. I've gotten comments that you prefer to see things moving in real time. Let me know whether you like it sped up or if you like this style video where it's clips of things moving in real time. So the next thing I did was make up this maple icing and as I was making this, I really was thinking about what else I could use this on because it's so delicious and you just cook it up. Plus I love this little whisk for things like this. Then you let it cool down so it gets thicker and you can easily put it on top of the cookies but I think this would be amazing on like some cinnamon sugar muffins or something like that. So maybe in the future I'll have to come up with something that this would be great on because once it cools, it actually like kind of gets a little bit more hardened on top of the cookie and it's just so yummy. I hope this meal prep inspired you. If you're new here, don't forget to subscribe. I have lots of easy recipes for your family and I will see you all in my next video.