Recipes

Tara’s Banana Bread

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 4 very ripe bananas
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream butter and sugars. Add vanilla, eggs, and bananas and mix until well combined. Add baking soda, salt, and cinnamon and mix until combined. Finally, add flour and mix slowly just until well incorporated. Pour into glass loaf pan and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes on the middle rack. Insert toothpick into the center of the loaf to check doneness- if only a few crumbs are attached it is ready to come out of the oven. If not quite done, bake in 5 minute increments, checking the toothpick each time. After the bread has been taken out of the oven and has cooled slightly, stuff your face.
Warning: This banana bread is slightly addicting.

 

 

Jumbo Monster Cookie Recipe:

Yield: 11-12 Cookies

Ingredients

• 16oz jar peanut butter
• 1 stick of butter (room temp)
• 1 3/4 cups light brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 5 cups old fashioned oats
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup milk chocolate chips
• 1 cup M&M’s

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper
2. In a large mixing bowl combine peanut butter, butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until fluffy.
3. Add eggs and vanilla and stir until combined
4. Add the oats and baking soda. Stir well.
5. Mix in chocolate chips and M&M’s
6. Use 1/2 cup measuring cup to portion out dough, then roll all 1/2 cup of dough into a ball.
7. Place 4 cookies offset on a cookie sheet at once so they have room to spread.
8. Bake for 12 minutes then press down dough ball with a fork, and back for another 7 minutes
9. Let cool on the sheet pan at least 5 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.