Banana Bread Recipe

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Banana Bread Recipe

• Prep time: 5 minutes
• Cook time: 1 hour
• Yield: Makes one loaf.

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INGREDIENTS

• 3 or 4 ripe bananas, smashed
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 1 cup sugar (can easily reduce to 3/4 cup)
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour

METHOD

No need for a mixer for this recipe. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). With a wooden spoon, mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour last, mix. Pour mixture into a buttered 4x8 inch loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.

NOTES: Used 2 bowls, 5 1/3 tbsp. butter, 3 bananas only, 1/2 brown sugar 1/4 white sugar, 1 fake egg, less than 1 tsp. salt, 3/4 white flour, 3/4 whole wheat flour (sifted).      

Waffles

Added a litte confectionary sugar. Also needed to cook a bit longer, because they were super mushy on the inside. Mixed a little white flour in as well.

Dean preferred them as pancakes, but Kenny loved the waffles!  Usually Kenny doesn't like foods that are missing the egg, but he really seemed to enjoy these.

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• Prep Time: 2 mins,
• Cook Time: 13 mins,
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Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup plain greek yogurt
• 1 large egg
• 1/3 cup vegetable or canola oil
• 2 tablespoons honey or agave
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation

1. 1. Preheat waffle iron.
2. 2. Sift the first 3 ingredients into a bowl.
3. 3. In a separate bowl, whisk the remaining wet ingredients.
4. 4. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and whisk until combined. Do not over mix.
5. 5. Pour 1/2 cup of batter into a greased waffle iron and cook about 3-4 minutes or according to manufacturer’s directions.
6. 6. Serve with desired accompaniments.
7. *To freeze: Allow to cool, place in a Ziploc bag, label and freeze. When ready to eat, place in toaster oven until heated through or in the oven at 300 degrees and heat for 10 minutes or until heated through.

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Eggless Chocolate Cake

I always use this recipe or similar one to make cupcakes, I never actually made this as an actual cake.  Good only when fresh- they get stale very quickly.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 5 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 cup cold water

Preparation:

In a large mixing bowl, mix flour, sugar, cocoa, soda and salt. Make three wells in the flour mixture. In one put vanilla; in another the vinegar, and in the third the oil. Pour the cold water over the mixture and stir until moistened. Pour into 8 x 8-inch pan. Bake at 350°F. oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until it springs back when touched lightly.

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Ingredients

• 4 cups old fashioned oats
• 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/2 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup chocolate chips*
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 cup canola oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup honey

Preparation

1. 1. Preheat oven to 325 F.
2. 2. Combine the first 6 ingredients in a bowl.
3. 3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the remaining ingredients.
4. 4. Pour the wet ingredients over the oat mixture and stir to combine.
5. 5. Place granola mixture on a parchment lined baking sheet and shape into a rectangle, about 13 x 9 x 1 inch thick.
6. 6. Bake for 40 minutes.
7. 7. Allow to cool completely then cut into 3 x 1 inch bars.**
9. * You can substitute raisins or other dried fruit for the chocolate chips.
10. ** Individually wrapped, the bars will remain fresh for several weeks.

Notes:  I halved the recipe. Parchment paper is mandatory.  Cooked 40 towards the bottom of the oven and I think they were overcooked- Dean and Kenny didn't think so, but I think they could have been a little less crunchy and a bit chewier.

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Candace's step by step process:

-wash and boil sweet potatoes in a big pot of water until tender but NOT mushy; you should be able to just pierce with a knife, but you don't want them to fall apart. should still hold their shape and be able to cut into slices

- drain in colander and let cool until cool enough to touch (can put in fridge)

- peel skin off using knife; most will sort of slip right off

- slice into lengthwise pieces

- butter the bottom of a foil pan or cookie sheet and arrange slices in single later (can overlap a bit)

- put a small pat of butter on each slice (i usually cut a stick of butter in quarters lengthwise, and then cut crosswise; you end up with small cubes)

- sprinkle or spoon a bit of brown sugar on each slice-- maybe ~1 tsp on each slice? more for bigger ones?

- drizzle maple syrup over all potatoes, but not completely drenched.

-bake in 350 oven until everything is melted and looks caramelized (never know how long this is, since we are usually baking in an oven that has other stuff in it on Thanksgiving.. probably 30 mins?)
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