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Reeses Penaut Butter Cup Banana Bread

I have seen this idea on Pinterest for ages. It always sounded like the perfect combination. And making plain banana bread last week had me still in the mood for banana bread. So here we are. I used the same recipe from last week but adjusted to make peanut butter and peanut butter cup banana bread. 

This bread was great. Everyone seemed to like it more than me. I like peanut butter. And I do enjoy it with chocolate and dessert. But I don't like a lot of peanut butter in desserts. I can't do peanut butter frosting, something about it just doesn't sit right with me. I know its weird. 

Anyways next time I think I want to make a plain banana bread and mix in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and no actual peanut butter in the batter. But this was still wonderful, I highly suggest you give it a go! 

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup Butter melted 
1 Cup Sugar 
1/2 Cup Peanut Butter
2 Eggs 
1 TSP Vanilla Extract 
1 1/2 Cup Flour 
1 TSP Baking Soda 
1/2 TSP Salt  
1/2 Cup Sour Cream 
3 Smashed Bananas 

Directions: 

1. Preheat oven to 350F and grease a 9X5 loaf pan. 
2. Melt butter. In a large bowl mix together the butter and sugar. Add in peanut butter, mix until well combined. Then add eggs and vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda and salt. 
3. In a bowl mash bananas.  Fold in bananas and sour cream into the bread mixture. 
4. Pour into prepared pan. If you are a fatty like me slice butter thin and place on top of batter sprinkle with sugar.
4. Bake for 50-60 minutes. Let cool.

Banana Bread

So there I was again, an abundance of over ripe banans sitting on the kitchen countertop. Banana bread would be made tomorrow I thought. The banana bread reciepe we use in our family is good, not great, but good. 


I set out to find a recipe with sour cream, because, well sour cream makes everything better. I found one that claimed to be the best and and it did include sour cream. So I went for it. And yes it was amazing. SOOO moist. If something is moist I am in love. Moist baked goods are the best. The moisture level and can make or break a recipe. 


Anyways, Yes I will make this every time I want banana bread. And I do look forward to making a peanut butter version, chocolate version, biscoff.. you get the point. :) Anyways this was a one bowl, five minute kind of recipe so get to it! 




Ingredients: 


1/ 2 Cup of Butter 
1 Cup of White Sugar
2 Eggs
1 TSP Vanilla Extract 
1 1/2 Cups Flour 
1 TSP Baking Soda
1/2 TSP Salt 
1/2 Cup of Sour Cream 
3 Very Ripe Bananas 


Optional: 
3 TBSP Butter
1/4 Cup White Sugar/Brown Sugar Mixed 


Directions: 


1. Preheat oven to 350F and grease a 9X5 loaf pan. 
2. Melt butter. In a large bowl mix together the butter and sugar. Then add eggs and vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda and salt. 
3. In a bowl mash bananas.  Fold in bananas and sour cream into the bread mixture. 
4. Pour into prepared pan. If you are a fatty like me slice butter thin and place on top of batter sprinkle with sugar.
4. Bake for 50-60 minutes. Let cool. Devour. 

Recipe adapted from: MrsWebersNeighborhood

Rolo Pecan Caramel Chocolate Cake Bars

I have a thing for Turtle like desserts. I mean who wouldn't? Chocolate, Caramel and Pecans need I say more? I was at Target last night for no reason at all. I just felt like going. I already have enough trouble when I go to Target with a list, but going with no list and just for fun? That is dangerous people! Well I was in the candy section and the mini bags of candy( the bags with no wrappers on the candies of Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, Rolo's, Butterfingers..etc) you know! Well, they were on sale and I needed some excuse to buy 3 bags for $8. So I decided to bake as it is Sunday and I do work I could easily pawn off a tray of deliciousness! So here we are. 


These bars are delicious, I really enjoyed them. One co-worker suggested I send them off to the Rolo factory :) 




Ingredients: 
1 Box of Devil's Food Cake Mix 
1 Stick of Unsalted Butter
1 Large Egg
1 Bag of unwrapped Rolo's 
1 1/2 Cup of Chopped Pecan's
1/2 Chocolate Chip's 
3/4 Cup of Carmel ( Melt your own Caramels, use caramel ice cream topping) 




Directions: 


1. Preheat oven to 350F and wrap a 9X13 baking dish with foil and lightly butter. 
2. In a large mixing bowl combine cake mix, room temperature butter and egg. Mix until well combined. Press into bottom of baking dish. 
3. Chop Rolo's in half and sprinkle on top of cake mixture. Sprinkle pecans, chocolate chips and pour caramel over it all. 
4. Bake for 23 minutes. Let cool completely. 

Pretzel Crusted Brownies

I like brownies. I don't LOVE them. I LOVE cookies. I LOVE chocolate. But anyways I decided to go ahead and make some brownies! These were quite scrumptious. I really enjoyed the texture of the pretzel crust. It was a nice addition. And I threw in all kinds of mix-in's really just what I had in the cupboard you could really throw in whatever you want. 




Ingredients:
1 Box of Brownie Mix or Your Fav Brownie Recipe
3 Cups of Crushed Pretzels
1 Cup Butter Melted
1/4 Cup Sugar
3/4 Cup Milk Chocolate Chips
1 Cup Chocolate Covered Toffee Chips
1/2 Cup Chopped Peanut Butter Cups


Directions:


1. Preheat oven to brownie recipe temp. Lightly grease a 9X13 pan.
2. In a large bowl mix together crushed pretzels, butter and sugar. Press into pan.
3. Make brownies according to box/recipe. Mix in chocolate chips, chocolate covered toffee bits, and peanut butter cups. (You can mix in whatever you like, this is just what I had on hand)
4. Bake according to brownie recipe.
5. Enjoy :)

recipe adapted from : Love From The Oven

Banoffe Pie

Due to my English background I am very familiar with Banoffe Pie. It is amazing and my Auntie Marguerite always makes it! Maybe because we always request it! :) The other day we had a party for my sissy's birthday and Banoffee Pie made an appearance. Some of our friends were in shock about how good it was. Thus here I am spreading the word about how simply delicious this is! And it is simple to make. 


This truly is one of my favorite desserts. And you can easily tweak it to what you have on hand, bananas, berries, pineapple...the options are endless! Enjoy!! :) 


* I used 2 full cans of cooked condensed milk, which was a bit too much but I have adjusted the recipe appropriately 


Ingredients: 


1 1/2 Cups Gram Cracker/Digestive Biscuits crushed into crumbs 
1 Cup of Butter
1 1/2 Cans of Sweetened Condensed Milk  
2 Large Bananas 
1 1/4 Cups Heavy Whipping Cream 
1/4 Cup Powdered Sugar 
1 TSP Vanilla Extract 
Milk Chocolate Bar for garnishing


Directions: 


1. Preheat oven to 300F. 
2. To caramelize condensed milk pour milk into a large baking dish ( 13X9, 12 X 2..etc) just make sure the dish fits in your large roast pan. Cover condensed milk with foil and place baking dish with condensed milk in roasting pan and fill pan with water. Bake for 2hrs until the right, beautiful caramel color. Let cool completely 
3. Turn oven up to 350F. In a small bowl mix together the graham cracker crumbs and butter, until well combined. Press into a 9 inch pie dish. Bake in oven for 8-10 minutes. Let cool. 
4. Once crust and caramel cooled pour half of caramel over the crust and place sliced banana slices over the caramel and then top with the rest of the caramel. Chill in the fridge for 20-30 minutes. 
5. In bowl of an electric mixer combine heavy whipping cream, powdered sugar and vanilla. Whip on high until stiff peaks form. 
6. Top pie with fresh whipped cream.
Optional- Use a peeler on a chocolate bar to create curls for top of pie. 

Garlic Veggie Pasta

If I could eat one type of food for the rest of my life it would be Italian. Pasta, Bread, Cheese, Garlic, Tiramisu, Cannoli...the list goes on! I just LOVE it so much!! I love the creamy Alfredo sauce, a great meat sauce, and just a plain old garlic olive oil. 


The other night I wanted a quick, yummy, semi-healthy dinner. This is super easy to make. You can easily adjust to make a large batch or smaller single portions. You can also adjust the type of veggies you use based on what you already have in the house. Enjoy :) 




Ingredients: 


1 Cup of Cherry Tomatoes 
1 Cup of Chopped Asparagus 
1/2 Cup of Chopped Carrots
1 Cup of Broccoli 
1 Bag of Pasta 
1/2 Cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil 
1/4 Cup Roasted Garlic 
Parmesan & Romano Cheese 


Directions: 


1. In a pot of boiling water cook the pasta according to directions on pasta bag/box. 
2. In a large saucepan saute broccoli, carrots and garlic in olive oil. After a few minutes add the asparagus. Three minutes later add the tomatoes. 
3. Once the veggies are sautéed add the cooked pasta. Sprinkle with as much or as little cheese as you would like. 
4. Enjoy :)