Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients:
3 cups Sugar
4 Eggs
1/2 Tbsp Baking Powder
2 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Cloves
1 tsp Cinnamon
3 1/2 cups Flour
1 tsp Nutmeg
1 Tbsp Pumpkin Spice
2/3 cup water
1 cup Oil
15 oz. Can Pumpkin
1/2 tsp Salt


Mix ingredients, adding pumpkin last & stir.

Bake in greased loaf pan @ 325 degrees for approx. 1 hour


Variations- Add raisins or chocolate chips

Banana Bread

Ingredients:
1 sq. butter
2 Eggs
2 cups Flour
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 1/2 cup Sugar
4 Mashed Bananas
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 cup Chopped Nuts(pecans)


Cream butter, sugar and eggs. Add bananas. Add flour and remaining ingredients. Mix well. Put in greased and floured bread pans.
Bake @ 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

Enjoy

banana muffins with mascarpone cream cheese frosting

This is a recipe that my mom got from Ronalee, a friend that she works with who also makes super yummy stuff! The frosting is soooooo yummy!


Banana muffins with mascarpone cream cheese frosting

Muffins:
3 cups flour
1 TBsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon (I double it because I like lots of cinnamon)
1/2 tsp nutmeg
(I also added a tiny bit of cardamom because I love that stuff, but that's just me.)
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 TBsp vanilla
4 ripe bananas

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and spices in a bowl. In another bowl, beat sugar, eggs, oil, bananas and vanilla.
Slowly combine both together.
Line 18 muffin cups or grease and flour pans.
Bake on middle rack until tops are golden brown. About 25 mins.
After cool frost and then sprinkle with nuts.

Frosting:
3 oz cream cheese (softened)
1/3 cup mascarpone cheese (softened)
3 TBsp honey (I added a little more)

1/2 cup toasted nuts (Toast them. Just do it. They are so much better that way!)

Oh nuts! I am nuts about nuts!
I combined mine with melted butter and a little brown sugar and cinnamon.
Then toasted them in the oven for about 15-20 mins.
I would recommend toasting more than 1/2 cup because if you're like me, you'll taste them and then kinda just keep eating them. Yummy!

Almond Poppy Seed Bread

Almond Poppy Seed Bread

3 cups flour
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/8 cup canola oil (I have also substituted this with yogurt and it turned out great)
3 eggs
1 1/2 cup milk
2 tsp poppy seeds
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 tsp butter flavoring
1 1/2 tsp almond flavoring


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift flour, salt and baking powder together. In another bowl, combine eggs, oil, sugar and flavorings. Beat 2 minutes. Alternate adding flour mixture and milk until well combined. Add seeds.
Pour into greased and floured pans.
Bake 35-40 minutes for mini, 1 hour for regular.

Makes 5 mini or 2 regular size loaves.

After cool, pour glaze on and let it harden.

Glaze: 3/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup orange juice, 1/2 tsp vanilla, 1/2 tsp butter flavoring, 1/2 tsp almond flavoring

Note: This recipe is very forgiving. I have made it without eggs and it was great. Used butter instead of oil. I have also substituted yogurt instead of oil.
I also used chia seeds (I have a lot of them on hand) instead of poppy seeds.
I have also poured the glaze on when they were still in the pans and when they were out of the pans and either way worked fine. I love the way the glaze gets crunchy on top. Yum!