Mos Eisley Morsels

Today we cooked the last breakfast recipe — Mos Eisley Morsels.  Mos Eisley is a spaceport and is the location of the cantina with all those funky weird aliens.  This recipe looked really yummy, and we were all excited to try it.

We pulled together the ingredients:

After pre-heating the oven and greasing our baking pan, we first sifted together the dry ingredients.  Peter measured out all the ingredients and Jacob sifted.

Then we masehd up 3 bananas.  The boys found this part to be particularly unappetizing!

After blending the mashed bananas with some egg, vanilla extract and oil, we stirred those together and folded in the dry ingredients.  We ended up with this:

We spread it in the baking pan and popped it into the oven.  It seemed a little dry to me, and I started to worry.  The recipe provided the option of mashing additional bananas to place on top of the finished bread, but the boys had been so disgusted by the initial banana mashing process, that they chose to forego this option. 

Here’s how they came out.  I was pleased with the cakey-looking texture.  Though, as you can see, they were not uniform in thickness.  I tried to spread the batter as evenly as possible, but it was so thick, that proved difficult.

Skill level:  Moderate.  This recipe was just a shade more complicated for the kids than the other ones we’ve done.  We had to sift dry ingredients together then fold them into wet ingredients.

Outcome:  The kids didn’t like these.  I thought they were ok, but weren’t as sweet as I had hoped.  They seemed to be missing something in the taste, though the combination of spices (cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg and cloves) was nice.  Peter’s comment: “They have a taste, but they don’t taste like anything.  I know that doesn’t make sense, but that’s the only way I know how to say it.”

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