Last week’s post about If You Give a Pig a Pancake got me thinking about all the If You Give books and the Mouse Cookies & More: A Treasury, which I just received in the mail from one of the monthly children’s book clubs.

Mouse Cookies & More: A Treasury is a great book to dance, sing, read, bake, and do art with! Not only does it combine several of Laurq Numberoff’s books, it also comes with a CD of songs, and has recipes and craft activities for kids. I was thrilled to see that the story, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, not only has instructions for making sock puppets, but comes with an eggless muffin recipe as well.

Chocolate Mud Muffins
12 muffins

1. 2 cups flour
2. 1 1/4 cup sugar
3. 1/3 cup cocoa
4. 1 tsp cinnamon
5. 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
6. 1/2 tsp salt
7. 1 1/4 cup buttermilk
8. 1/4 cup vegetable oil
9. 2 tsp vanilla

Moose Treats – Choose 1 or more of these to total one cup:

• chocolate chips
• chocolate-covered peanuts
• chocolate-covered peanut butter pieces

Instructions:

1. Turn on oven to 400 degrees F. Make sure rack is in center of oven. Generously spray or grease muffin cups and the top of a tin.
2. In a large bowl, with a fork or whisk, combine the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. In a medium bowl, mix buttermilk, oil, and vanilla. Add the wet mixture to teh dry mxture, then stir just until combined. in 2 or 3 strokes stir in moose treats. (Optional: hold back about 1/4 cup of moose treats to sprinkle on top.)
3. Divide the “mud” equally among muffin cups, then sprinkle the remaining treats on top, if you wish. (You can taste the batter – no eggs!) Bake about 25-30 minutes or until the tops are very well cooked.

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