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Archive for June, 2008

So you want to make banana crisp. Well, I have a great recipe to share with you. Usually my posts are about cookies or other delicious desserts, but I suppose I will take a break to celebrate and share the amazing side of bananas with this recipe for banana crisp.

• 6 medium bananas (cut into 1/2 inch strips)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup vanilla wafer crumbs
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• Whipped cream

Arrange bananas in a greased baking pan. Sprinkle with salt. Combine butter and crumbs. Add cinnamon and sugar, mixing well. Sprinkle mixture over bananas. Bake 20 minutes in moderate oven. Serve with whipped cream.

If you want to stray from baking cookies, try this apricot danish recipe for a change!

• 4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 2 tbsp. yeast
• 1 tsp. salt
• ½ cup water
• ½ cup 2% milk
• ¾ cup butter
• 2 tbsp. cinnamon
• 1 cup apricot jam, melted for icing

In a large bowl, mix 2 cups of the flour, ½ cup of sugar, yeast and the salt. Heat water, milk and ½ cup of butter until warm. Pour over the dry ingredients, mix. Add eggs and the remaining flour to get dough that shapes up well into a ball.

On a floured surface, knead dough until has a smooth and supple surface. Cover and let rise for 10 minutes.

Roll out dough to a dimension of 22 in. x 18 in. Melt the rest of the butter and spread it over dough. Sprinkle the rest of the sugar and cinnamon over dough. Roll up dough like a jelly roll, pinching sides to seal edges well.

Cut roll into 24 slices. Place on a greased baking sheet. Cover and let dough rise at room temperature until they double in size [about 45 minutes]. Preheat oven to 359 degrees F. Bake for 29 minutes or until golden. Let cool and garnish with apricot jam.

• 1 spice cake mix [1 layer]
• 1 cup apple pie filling
• ¼ tsp. cinnamon
• 4 tbsp. Graham wafer crumbs ice cream or plain yogurt for garnish

Prepare cake mix according to package. Pour into an 8 in. square pan. Spread pie filling over top, sprinkle with cinnamon.Bake according to package instructions. Let cool on cake rack. Cut into squares. Sprinkle with wafer crumbs and serve with ice cream or yogurt.

Making apple and spice squares is a great opportunity to try something different, after making batches of cookies and brownies, you might just welcome the slight change!

Possibly one of the easier recipes, this magic hot fudge pudding cake is delicious in any season. This topic strays from our usual cookies, brownies, and bars blog posts but you might find it a welcomed change!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 2 tablespoon cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 cup sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/4 cup butter, melted

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In large bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, sugar and salt. Slowly whisk in the butter and milk until mixture is smooth. Put in an ungreased cake pan.

Topping:

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 2 cups hot water

Sprinkle the brown sugar and cocoa powder over top of the cake (the entire cake). Bake for 35 minutes. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

If you like these, you might also like making Mississippi Mud Cupcakes!

Raspberry crepe cake is one of life's finer delicacies. Sure, you may have heard of raspberry muffins, or cookies, but this crepe cake concept might be new to you!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 ¼ cups partially skimmed milk
• 3 eggs, separated
• ¼ cup butter, melted
• ¼ cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup raspberry jam
• 2 tbsp. icing sugar

In a bowl, mix flour with milk and let stand for 30 minutes. In another bowl, beat egg yolks, melted butter and sugar. Add to milk.Beat egg whites until soft peaks form and add to batter. Cook thin crepes in a nonstick frying pan, using up all the batter.Spread raspberry jam and stack them. Sprinkle crepe with icing sugar.  With a red hot steel skewer, make lines on icing sugar. [10 servings]