Muffins!

[andrea.faerie]

So I'm trying my baking skills out on my parrots I'm pretty good in the kitchen, so I'm trying my hand at improvised birdie bread! It smells like fall <3

 

[QuackQuack]

What recipe mama bird?

 

[andrea.faerie]

I'm combining a few different ones i found I've got:

1 box of jiffy cornbread mix
2 packets of sugar free cinnamon and apple oatmeal
2 eggs w/ shells finely crushed
the crumbs from the bottom of Bleu's bag of pellets
Cinnamon (i just shook it a few times haha)
1 6 oz jar of organic sweet potato baby food
1 4 oz jar of organic baby applesauce
about a cup of a random mix of raisins, almonds, shelled safflower seeds, peanuts and a pinch of sunflower seeds (my birdies don't get sunflower seeds in their food ever so i figure this can be a treat )
a hand full of shredded and chopped carrots

mix it all up and put in the oven 400 degrees for... idk how long yet! haha My oven cooks FAST and i'm using a mini muffin tray ^_^ I don't have a food processor so everything is chopped and blended by hand. I took out the big pieces of egg shell and left the little bits I think Lucy could handle safely

 

[andrea.faerie]

OOH and I bought the fids a small bag to the mini sized roudybush to see if they like it so i'm breaking those up a little smaller and using them as toppings

 

[andrea.faerie]

Mini muffins are done! takes about 9-11 minutes

I'm making big muffins too, they're looking like 11-15 minutes

all that yielded 24 mini muffins and 4 regular size muffins

 

[andrea.faerie]

Mini muffins!

regular muffins

OMNOMNOM!

Lucy was a little more hesitant haha

but she gave in after seeing Bleu eating it haha

Overall, it was a complete and total SUCCESS!

 

[roxynoodle]

Just be aware that the Jiffy corn bread mix has a fair amount of sugar in it. I did use it once in awhile to hide orange veggies for my BC conure who would not eat anything orange. I would use jars of carrot or sweet potato baby food mixed in since it had high amounts of vitamin A. I knew she was a corn freak so it was a way to get her the A while I spent what seemed like forever getting her on pellets.

 

[suebee]

oh they look tasty lol