Sour Cream Banana Bread

First of all, I have to say, that I don't really care much for banana bread.  I don't really like banana's.  I have to be in the right mood to eat them.  My sister made this bread and asked me try it, and it was AMAZING!  I can't really taste the banana's, and it is very moist and crumbly.  It reminds me more of a pound cake!  Oh, it's so good!  This is my new recipe for banana bread!

Sour Cream Banana Bread

1 cup Margarine

1 & 1/2 cup sugar

3 eggs

1 & 1/2 cup mashed bananas

4 cups + 2 Tbsp. flour

1 & 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1 & 1/2 cup sour cream

1 cup walnuts chopped (optional)

Cream together butter and sugar.  Add eggs and beat.  Add bananas and beat.  Mix dry ingredients together in a small bowl and add to the creamed mixture.  Add sour cream, beat until smooth, stir in nuts.  Pour batter into 2 large greased and floured loaf pans.   Bake at 350 for 1 hour.  To test for doneness insert a sharp knife into the center of the bread.  If it comes out clean the bread is done.

This bread is very moist and freezes well.

This could be co nsidered a bread or a dessert. Anyway you look at it, it's yummy!
Zucchini Bread

1 cup oil

2 cups sugar

3 eggs

2 cups grated zucchini, peeled

3 cups flour

3 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. baking powder

Nuts

Raisins

or my favorite, cinnamon chips!!!

Mix oil, sugar and eggs. Add zucchini and vanilla. Mix well. Add remaining ingredients. Place in a greased bread pan Bake at 350 for 50 - 60 minutes. Makes 2 loaves.

Honey Wheat Bread

I've posted other bread recipes, see here & here, but this is way better than either of those. Way better! I can't believe how good this was. My husband loved it and I have to admit, the man is picky. I was super excited to ty it because she used honey powder and I have been looking for a way to use some of it. I have quite a few cans of it in my food storage. I don't think I will ever use another recipe for bread!

I got this at My Crazy Life. She has a great sight. I love her recipes and have posted some of them before. They have turned into some of our family favorites. Check out her recipes, here!
Sherelle's Honey Wheat Bread

-4 c. warm water
-1/3 c. sugar
-3/4 c. honey powder (You can also use honey, but the powder is much easier to work with)
-1 Tbs. gluten **I used 2 Tbsp. of dough enhancer instead**
-3 Tbs. yeast
-3 tsp. salt
-1/2 c oil (I use Canola)
-6 c. white flour
-5 1/2 c. freshly groud whole wheat

Dissolve sugar and yeast in warm water. Add other ingredients. Mix well. Place in a large greased bowl. Cover with a towel and place in a warm place. Allow to rise 1 hour. Punch and knead. Divide into 4 greased bread pans and return to warm place. Allow to rise 30 minutes. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes (20-25 minutes if using a dark pan). Cool for about 10 minutes and then remove from pans onto a cooling rack. Grease the top of loaves with butter.

French Breakfast Muffins

3 C. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 C. sugar
2/3 cup shortening
2 eggs
1 C. milk
1 C. butter
1 & 1/2 cup sugar, divided
3 tsp. cinnamon

Lightly grease 12 muffin cups. Stir together flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon or nutmeg. Set aside. In a separate bowl, cream together 1 C. sugar and the shortening, then add eggs; mix well. Add flour mixture and milk alternately to creamed mixture, beating well after each addition. Fill prepared muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake at 350 for 20 - 25 minutes or until golden. In a bowl melt butter. In a separate bowl combine remaining sugar and cinnamon. Dip baked muffins in butter, coating thoroughly and then coat with cinnamon-sugar mixture.

Chocolate Pankcakes

Pancakes:

1 & 1/2 cup flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
6 Tbsp. sugar
6 Tbsp. baking cocoa
1 & 1/4 cup warmed milk
4 Tbsp. butter or margarine, melted
2 eggs, beaten (or use powdered eggs which would be 2 Tbsp. dry egg & 6 Tbsp. water)

Mix and sift dry ingredients. Add milk, butter and eggs and beat until smooth. Add extra milk if the batter is too thick. Cook as you do regular pancakes.

My 6-year-old said that it was like eating cupcakes for breakfast. He ate it without any syrup or anything on it. Recipe courtesy of the Worldwide Ward Cookbook.

Crescent Rolls

Crescent Rolls

2 pkg. active dry yeast (2 tbsp.)
½ cup warm water
¾ cup warm milk
¼ cup sugar
¼ cup shortening
1 egg
1tsp salt
3 ½ to 4 cups flour

In bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add milk, sugar, egg, shortening, salt and flour. Turn onto a floured surface, knead until smooth and elastic about 5 minutes. Place in greased bowl and allow to rise in a warm place covered, for about 30 minutes.

Punch down dough and add a little flour to top and mix into the dough to take away any stickiness. Roll out into circles and cut into 8ths. Roll up into crescent shape. Bake at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes. I get about 32 rolls from one batch.

Call Me The Doughnut Lady

You'd of thought my kids had died and gone to Heaven, tonight!! It is a little known fact that when I was a little girl, my mom and dad operated a doughnut shop! I have memories of being in the shop pretending to be a waitress and of warm and yummy smells!!! Then my dad had a midlife crisis and wanted to become a farmer!! Still trying to figure that one out, but anyway, I lvoe doughnuts and have been wanting to try this recipe for awhile now, so we did it. And it was GOOD!!!

Brigham’s Buttermilk Doughnuts

2 cups buttermilk

2 large eggs beaten

5 cups flour
1 cup sugar

1 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. salt

2 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. baking powder
¼ cup melted butter

Combine buttermilk, eggs, and sugar and mix well. Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and nutmeg together into a large mixing bowl. Stir in buttermilk mixture, then melted butter. Roll dough out about ¼ inch thick on floured board; cut with doughnut cutter. Fry in hot oil till golden brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels. Sprinkle or roll in sugar. Makes 2 dozen doughnuts.

Okay, so a few adjustments. I didn't have nutmeg so we used cinnamon. I used buttermilk powder in place of actual buttermilk. 6 tsp. buttermilk powder and 2 cups water. I used ALOT more flour than what it called for. I kept adding and adding, because the dough was so STICKY! Anyway, don't believe the 2 dozen part, because it made oodles of doughnuts. and doughnut holes. I lost track of how many because I, I mean we were too absorbed in eating them as they came out all nice and warm!! We rolled ours in Cinnamon/Vanilla Sugar from Alison's Pantry.

I have 2 huge ziploc baggies full of doughnuts to go to work with my hubby tomorrow. He was in watching the Biggest Loser and calling for me to come watch, "just a minute, babe," I'd say as I covertly placed another doughnut hole in my mouth. Yeah right, like I want to watch the Biggest Loser while I eat my deep fried and oh so satisfying treat!!!! Anyway, they really are yummy and I have to send them away or I might just eat 2 bags of doughnuts.

Enough, tell me to stop typing. I know your busy and you have things to do! So go and do and have a GREAT day. And remember to make these because they are YUMMY!

Homemade Pizza Dough

Use biscuit dough!! It will be much easier and less messy, but the kids LOVED it!! It's worth it for the memories! Pizza Crust

1 & 1/2 cups warm water
1 Tbsp. sugar
1 Tbsp. yeast
1 tsp. salt
Splash of oil
Flour

Mix water, salt, yeast, oil, and sugar.Add enough flour to make a stiff dough. Let raise 1/2 hour. Bake crust until golden brown.

Banana Nut Bread

5 ripe bananas, blended
4 eggs
1c. margarine
2 cups sugar
4 cups flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. chopped walnuts
2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt

Cream margarine and sugar. Add vanilla, eggs, and bananas; mix well. Add dry ingredients and nuts; mix well. Bake in 2 greased bread pans for 60 minutes at 350 degrees.

Wheat Bread

Okay, so I posted white bread yesterday, I thought I would post my wheat bread recipe. I tweaked several diffrent recipes until I came up with this and this is the bread that I prefer. It's more hardy and holds up better for sandwhiches or just even butter and honey.

Wheat Bread
(2 batch recipe)

1/2 cup warm water
1 Tbsp. sugar
1 Tbsp. Yeast

Brew together until bubbly

3 cups warm water
1/4 to 1/2 cup sugar
1/4 to 1/2 cup canola oil
2 Tbsp. Dough Enhancer (optional)
4 cups wheat flour or ground red wheat
white flour

Brew yeast in warm sugar water. In large bowl combine water, sugar, oil and dough enhancer. Add wheat flour and stirl. Then add yeast mixture. Add enough white flour to get dough manageable. I do leave it a littel sticky and add more flour after it has risen the first time. Raise until double. Bunch down and shape into loaves and place in greased bread pans. Let raise until bread it just starting to show over sides of pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Brush tops with butter for soft top.

This recipe is very easy and very flexible. You can adjust sugar and oild depending on you liking. You might could even use applesauce in place of the oil, but I have yet to try that out.
Good luck!!!

Homemade Bread and Freezer Jam

I love homemade bread. I usually make bread every Sunday. I usually make wheat bread. So it's kind of heavy, but it holds up well when making sandwiches and when you drench it in honey!

My kids won't eat homemade bread! J.D. calls it fake bread and asks for the store bought. So I thought I would make a couple of loafs of white bread and see if I could trick them into eating it, because it is still healthier than what you get at the store. No such luck! This was really good bread, but I prefer my wheat bread. This is well worth trying though. Mine came out a little too fluffy, it wouldn't even hold up to putting butter on it, but I did add dough enhancer, which it did not call for, so that may have been it. Anyway if you feel adventurous go ahead and try to make some up. The jam is absolutely divine and my kids did like the jam, alot!!

Basic White Bread Recipe:

1 & 1/4 cups warm water

1 Tbsp. yeast

2 Tbsp. Canola Oil

2 Tbsp. sugar

2 tsps. salt (I never add salt to my baked goods, but it calls for it)

3 to 3 1/2 cups white flour or ground white wheat

Add sugar to warm water. Add yeast and let sit until bubbles. (If you use SAF Yeast you can just add yeast with dry ingredients). Add oil, salt, and 2 cups of flour to yeast mixture. Mix by hand or by mixer for 5 - 10 minutes adding a little flour at a time until dough is light and pliable. Make sure dough is a little sticky rather than dry! Place in a covered bowl in a warm place until dough has doubled in bulk. After this rising, punch down and form dough into desired size. Let rise again until double in bulk and bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 20 to 30 minutes until light brown. This recipe will make 1 loaf.

Strawberry Freezer Jam:

5 cups diced, uncrushed fresh strawberries (I used frozen ones that I let thaw and it turned out)

2 cups sugar

3 Tbsp. clear jel

1 pkg. unsweetened strawberry Kool-aid

1/2 cup light Karo syrup

Mix sugar, Instant Clear Jel and Kool-aid well. Add to washed and diced berries. Put in Karo syrup and stir until well blended. put into containers and freeze.