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Quest 44: Zucchini Muffin Minish Caps


It's zucchini time! I have been looking ways to incorporate more green ideas into the blog, and today I think I may have succeeded. Minish Cap is a great game in the LOZ series that takes advantage of size in a bigger way that Ocarina of Time. It also brings to life the hat that Link wears in a way that is beyond imagination. With this in mind, today we will attempt to make Minish caps to place upon our zucchini muffins. It will be an interesting and tasty quest that I hope you give a try! Enjoy!


Gear! - Get the Printable Recipe Here!
Muffins!
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
1 t. vanilla
1/4 cup apple sauce - I used unsweetened
2 cups GF All-purpose flour with xanthan gum mixed in
2 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. cardamom
1 T. baking powder
1 t. baking soda
1 t. salt
1 cup finely grated zucchini
1/2 cup walnuts chopped

Streusel Topping!
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 T cinnamon
2 T. butter cold and cubed
1 T. GF flour

For the Minish caps!
carrots
zucchini
toothpicks
mandolin

Quest!
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Prep a muffin pan with muffin liners. Cream together sugar and butter. Add eggs, sour cream, vanilla, and apple sauce. Mix together.






To the mixture, add flour, cinnamon, cardamom, baking powder, baking soda, salt, grated zucchini and walnuts.







Spoon the muffin mix into the muffin liners and push the thick dough into the liners to remove bubbles.







Make the streusel topping by adding all ingredient to a bowl and crumb with a fork. Do not cream!







Spoon the streusel topping over each of the muffins.








BEING VERY CAREFUL!! Set your mandolin to 1/8 inch setting. Slice zucchini lengthwise creating 12 equal pieces. A medium zucchini should get you just enough. Set the mandolin to 1/16 setting and repeat with peeled carrots.





After some trial and error, the best way to make little caps is to start rolling on one end until it makes a nice spiral. Use a toothpick to secure at the top. Add the carrot piece to bottom and press into the muffin. If you don't press them into the muffin, as it rises, it will push the cap off and it will tip over.
Make a cap for each muffin. I added a little vanilla sugar over the top of the caps.


Bake muffins for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let cool for a few minutes and Enjoy!


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Quest 22: Boomerang Cookies


One of the most universal pieces of equipment in the LoZ is the boomerang. It brings you things that would otherwise be out of your reach. It trips switches and in my opinion is one of the best items you can equip. Today, we will celebrate this useful item by creating pecan cookies shaped like boomerangs. These cookies are pretty easy, only have a few ingredients and bake up in a breeze. These pecan crescent shaped cookies will have you coming back again and again. Enjoy!


Gear!
1 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon cardamom
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup finely (and I mean finely!) chopped pecans
2 cups gluten free AP flour with xanthan gum
1-2 tablespoons of heavy cream
colored sugar (blue and yellow)

The Quest!

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cream together the butter and sugar until it is fluffy and creamy.
 Creamy! Add vanilla extract, cardamom, and cinnamon.
 Finely chop the pecans! I am using a mini chopper to get a more consistent result. It is also much fast than hand chopping.That's fine!

Add pecans and flour to the butter mixture and combine until dough is crumbly. If it is too dry to make a ball when you squish (yes, technical term) it in your hands, add the 1-2 tablespoons of cream to help bind the dough a little better. It should still be crumbly.
Form inch balls in your hand and then squish into log shapes.
 On your sheet pan, shape logs into crescents.
 Ta-da!
 Sprinkle with colored sugar: Yellow for regular boomerangs; Blue for Magical boomerangs.
 Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
 Place on a cooling rack to help them set. 

Enjoy!

Get the printable version of this recipe here!


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