Three-Second Desserts
I recently discovered that having a new baby keeps one very busy, and that the said busyness, when combined with calorie-burning breastfeeding, also makes one very hungry, leading one to find quick ways to shovel food into ones mouth.
When food shoveling needs to be done, I’m your gal. Here’s one of my favorite go-to, food shoveling recipes. With just three everyday ingredients and hardly any prep work, it’s a cinch to whip up. And since it only requires one spoon, there’s practically no clean up! Better still, you only need one hand to make it, so your other hand is free to hold a squirming baby or wipe spit up off your shoulder.
First, head over to your new kitchen cabinets from Ikea. Choose to ignore the fact that you still have not yet put switch plates on any of the switches or outlets in new kitchen, or attached the undercabinet lighting.
Open the cabinets that contain food. Still feel slightly shocked when you see one whole shelf devoted to feeding a baby (Bottles!? WTF? Oh yeah.) Grab the peanut butter, chocolate chips and marshmallows.
Prepare the ingredients.
Grab a spoon. If you do not have any clean spoons available, use a fork, butter knife or any utensil that can fit in both a Skippy peanut butter jar and your mouth without causing a hard-to-explain injury.
Dip spoon into peanut butter, gathering a hearty amount of creamy goodness. Notice your reflection in the spoon and wish you didn’t appear upside down in it, cause how funny would it be to see yourself with peanut butter for hair.
Dip peanut-butter covered spoon into chocolate chips.
Make sure the spoon has gathered enough chocolate chips.
Smoosh mini-marshmallows between chocolate chips on spoon. If you only have large marshmallows, simply wipe the peanut butter/chocolate chip mixture onto it and feel relieved that there was a simple solution to such a horrifying predicament.
Insert into mouth and enjoy every second of deliciousness. If not breastfeeding a baby with milk protein sensitivities, follow it up with a huge gulp of ice cold, amazingly refreshing and fantastically tasty milk. Repeat as often as needed. I repeat very often because my body is being deprived of cheese and ice cream and needs to get those absent calories from somewhere, right?
Since most of the ingredients are already out, we might as well enjoy a bonus “You can make it so fast, you won’t feel guilty having it even if the baby is crying in her bouncy chair” dessert. To prepare this delectable treat-for-one, swap out the peanut butter for graham crackers. Fresh is preferable, but stale ones will do if it’s all you have on hand.
Split a graham cracker in half. Briefly wonder if a man named Graham actually invented this type of cracker. Remember that you don’t have time to think of such things. You must focus! Put graham cracker halves onto a regular ol’ plate, because you were too practical to register for china when you got married.
Arrange chocolate chips on one half of the graham and cover the other half with mini marshmallows.
Why the minis and not a Hershey bar and regular marshmallow? Because these little guys melt faster and we only have 3 seconds!
Pop into the microwave till marshmallows puff up a bit. Smoosh marshmallow half on top of chocolate chip half. Enjoy!
Realize that although microwaved s’mores are just as messy as those made around a campfire, they don’t taste quite as good, but will do in a pinch.
There you have it, Friends. Two desserts that everyone can enjoy in just a few seconds, whether you have a new baby or not.
Note: If you are a cook who happens to have a new baby, do not attempt to eat the s’mores while trying to breastfeed, as there’s a very good chance marshmallow goo could fall on baby’s head while doing so. Not that I know from experience or anything.
Those are the BEST!! I do them all the time:-)
Funny post- yummy! We have the same plates, but in a different color. Do you find that they get hot in the microwave?! Every piece we own does so we no longer use them to heat stuff up.
My baby nephew got the nickname "Butter Head" one night this summer. I'm sure you can guess how!
LOL!! Those desserts are right up my alley! -cozykitchen:-)
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