There is something about the pandemic that most people never saw coming. A lot of overweight people started their fat journey due to being stuck at home. That is because they eat a bit too many treats and didn’t enjoy them the best way. But I will say that I learned a whole lot of things by staying at home and reading more. I have also read lots more cookbooks that have led me to expand my baking. This has not always been a good thing and my wife and definitely vouch for my failure to make some good baking many times. On the contrary I did learn to cook pretty well during the last year and now in 2021, I am doing pretty good.
I wish shopping was more fun, but even a year after the pandemic I found it to be lame. The shopping during COVID-19 has been complicated and we try to only make a single trip to the grocery stores once a month. That means that sometimes we run out of normal baking goods and to stay safe we simply live without them. So being in a snack-filled feeling I knew that I needed to make something for myself and my family. We needed good treats to save the day.
I wish the items back in the day were as stocked as now because back then the baking items were sold out. We had no flour and no sugar in the house. That is pretty much the basic ingredients for all sweet baking of any kind. So I decided to branch out and work on some different ideas.

I learned to make cookies with no flower and it blew my family’s mind. It led me to many recipes that took me forever to decipher. It was looking at code because the ads and the articles were like 15 pages long for a single recipe. It made me pretty angry and I switched up. I decided to look in youtube for an easy cookie that I could use candy boxes of what we had and oatmeal and bananas. I know it was pretty limited, but I found a few videos. I found the shortest one because I was getting hungry or maybe even, angry. There were a few quick recipes to make all well.
The one I decided to make needed some oatmeal, vanilla extract your favorite candy boxes of treats, and bananas. It also asked for an egg and some butter. I knew this was the one worth trying. I decided to grab a bowl and start with the ingredients. I took two bananas and pealed them. Then I added the egg, sweet treats, and oatmeal. I slowly put the butter and a dash of vanilla in and mixed it up. One other thing it asked for was a pinch of salt. Now it was time to get the heater up and running.

It only wanted the oven to be on for 450 and about nine minutes depending on the sweet treat burning in the heat. So I watched it carefully and pulled it out. The cookie reminded me of an oatmeal raisin from the look. It was a big more soft so I knew it needed to sit and cool for a bit longer. Who knew it would be so good!