Rotting Banana's and Office Breakfast

 

Hi Everyone! So sorry to take so long to blog about this.  Busy, busy day, lots of apartment hunting going on over here- stressed out Jessica in the house!

Well on Sunday, after bf left and I was a smidge sad, I decided to not let my rotting banana's go to waste and I made a nice little breakfast for the office!  I felt like mini banana muffins was a great treat to bring in and a great way to take advantage of the perfectly ripe fruit. I find that every time I WANT my bananas to be ripe they are border-line green and every time I want my bananas to be perfect to eat, they are brown as mud.  This was a prime example- so Mini Banana Muffins here we come!

These are so easy to make.  The recipe was sniped, and adjusted from Gina's Blog- Gina knows how to do it right!

Ingredients: 

3 ripe medium bananas

1/4 cup unsweetened apple sauce

1-1/4 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

2 tbsp butter, softened

1/2 cup light brown sugar

2 large egg whites

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Steps:

1) Preheat oven to 325°

2) In a medium bowl mix flour, baking
soda and salt 

3) In a separate bowl, with an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy

4) Add egg whites, bananas, apple sauce and vanilla to sugar mixer with the electric mixture

5) Combine the flour mixture and the banana mixer at low speed until combined

6) Spoon batter into pam-ed muffin pans and bake for 20 to 30 mins 

7) Let cool and be the best employee ever and package them for work!

These can definitely be made into a loaf of bread as well- delish.  I promised you guys back in the day when I introduced you to the delicious My Mom Wants Me to Call This Banana-Applesauce-Bread... Bread that I would give you the general banana bread recipe so-  

You. Are. Welcome

 

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I give these a star fabulous rating of 8 out of 10- I wouldn't hate if they were bigger and I personally am not a super banana-y banana bread person! However, the consistency is amazing, they are moist (sorry to all you people who "claim" to hate that word), and they were definitely sweet.

Star Fabulous Rating: 8/10 

Chocolate Chip Morning Bread

Last night one of my roommates told me how she was craving chocolate so... Jessica to the rescue!


Realizing that I was down a lot of key ingredients I decided that I would see what I could come up with AND to my surprise this came out quite well if I do say so myself... ACTUALLY I guess I dont have to say it for myself because my roommate texted me today "I like the bread!!! Alot"... thats 3 exclimation points!


MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.


This creation is what I woud like to call Chocolate Chip Morning Bread because they have a similar consistency to scones and a nice slice (maybe paired with an orange) is a great breakfast on the go!


Ingredients:
1/4 cup apple sauce
3 tablespoons canola oil
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup chocolate chips
cut nuts
1 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 and 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3 egg whites
salt
12 almonds finely chopped (slices almonds work as well)


Steps: (EASIEST STEPS EVER!)
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
2) Combine all ingredients in one bowl (except almonds) and stir well
3) Put batter into a pam-ed 9x5 (banana bread) pan
4) Sprinkle with chipped almonds
5) Put in the oven for 15 to 30 minutes
6) Cut and enjoy

I am so happy that my roommate got her treat and this little experiment worked so well. 

Star Fabulous Rating: 7/10 

My-Mom-Wants-to-Call-this-Banana-Applesauce-Bread...Bread

Easter back at "the ranch" was as wonderful as I expected.  I ate more food than any one person needs to consume in a weekend and was comfortably stuffed for the solid 3 days. After a two and a half hour meal of Lo Mein, Chicken and Broccoli and Mai Tais, Sibling, BF, Sibling BF and Faj all went home to watch the Bruins kill it in over time, while mother and I took to the kitchen to create this scrumptious recipe to add to the Sunday Easter Brunch Buffet.  I have made this recipe more than once with the help of  Gina and decided that Mother could be allowed in on the secret of this scrumptious success. This recipe is easy and simple.  Unfortunately, "the ranch" was not prepared for the baking takeover that was about the commence, so we only had 2 bananas.  Because of this, Mother suggested that we heavy-up on the applesauce.  Similarly, she requested we call this  "My-Mom-Wants-to-Call-this-Banana-Applesauce-Bread...Bread" (I will post about the original, simple, Banana Bread at a different date).

We created half of Gina's recipe, to make one loaf, and strayed away from the nuts. After all, BF was at Easter and as you'll remember from my previous post BF has his Simple Ways to Easily Ruin a Sweet According to BF, and nuts are numero uno.

Ingredients:

2 ripe medium bananas, mashed (wish we had 3)

1/3 cup unsweetened apple sauce

1 and 3/4 cup all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

pinch of salt

3 tablespoon butter, softened

1/2 cup light brown sugar

3 large egg whites

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Steps: (Easy Peasy)

1) Preheat oven to 325°.  

2) Grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans with baking spray.

3)Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a medium size bowl and place aside.

4) In a separate, large bowl, with an electric mixer combine butter and sugar.

5) Add egg whites, bananas, apple sauce and vanilla to the butter mixture and and beat at medium speed until thick

6) Add flour mixture to the wet mixture and then blend at low speed until combined

7) Pour batter into pan bake for 45 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

8) Mother likes to serve with berries- I vote a nice dollop of I Can't Believe Its Not Butter- too each their own.

Considering this entire loaf was devoured before I even got a second piece, I would say its a hit. 

Star Fabulous Rating: 9/10 (Simple Banana Bread gets a 10/10- another post, another time)