It’s bear country here in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada. In fact, there was just a horrific grizzly attack recently, a couple of hours from our house. The man survived, but still, attacked, and mauled by a grizzly! Yikes!
This video is definitely one that is to be taken with good humour. We are having more fun with our videos, and I want you to have fun while you’re watching as well! Stepping outside the box (of our kitchen) keeps us interested, challenged, and hopefully adds an element to life that you might not see where you live. We are so lucky to live where we do, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and with our Backpack Baking series, we love to showcase our home turf!
This hike takes place on a local hike called “The Butte”, and it is located halfway between our city of Cranbrook, and the nearby one, Kimberley. It is about a 30-45 minute hike, and is one that can be done easily with kids, but when filming and hiking, it takes a couple of hours! Paul has recently started a new hobby, flying remote control aircraft’s (quadcopters, wings, planes etc), so we were loaded our backpacks up with the ingredients needed for baking, the quadcopter stuff, and the tools needed for the filming. It was a heavy load for the two of us. We need to hire a pack mule next time.
These bear poop cookies could be done a with a number of different add-in ingredients. I chose to use coconut, white chocolate chips, and pine nuts for optimal “poopness”. You could use other nuts, and ingredients if you prefer to have your scat look like something else. Black bears tend to eat a lot of berries around where we live, so the pine nuts were an essential add-in for my version.
Thanks to my mom for lending me her bear costume. Doesn’t everyone’s mom have a bear costume on stand-by for emergency bear videos? No? Oh. Well, my mom does! It must be the Kindergarten teacher in her. It’s her tickle trunk.
Bear Poop Cookies
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup white chocolate chips
- 3/4 cup shredded coconut
- 3/4 cup pine nuts
- Preheat oven to 350F. Line baking tray with parchment paper.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
- Continue to mix on low speed and add eggs, and vanilla.
- Add flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix on low until ingredients are combined.
- Add white chocolate chips, coconut and pine nuts. Stir until combined.
- Bake in preheated oven for 12-15 minutes.
- Allow to cool on baking tray until the cookies are able to be moved to a cooling rack with a spatula.
- Store in an airtight container for 2-3 days.
Thanks for putting up with this video! I hope you enjoyed seeing the beautiful sights of our area around us.
Hello, I’ve been looking for the blue Ateco silicone mat in your video, but only find the thin version which you can roll up. I am looking for a thicker version as the one in the video. Any suggestions?
Thanks so much.
Susan
Try looking on Amazon. Good luck!