Secret Banana Muffins

(The secret is, you cant tell they are whole wheat!!!)

Prep: 10 minutes Bake: 20 minutes

Ingredients:
5 Ripe Bananas
1/4 c. Butter
1/2 c. Sugar
1 Egg
1 tsp. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 c. Whole Wheat Flour
1 c. Chocolate chips (for garnish)

Preheat oven to 350 F.
Mash bananas in a large bowl. Melt butter. Combine butter, sugar and egg with bananas. Combine baking powder, baking soda, salt and flour in a medium bowl. Add all at once to banana mixture. Mix together. Spoon into greased muffin pan. Garnish with chocolate chips if desired! Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes. Enjoy! Serves 4 to 6.

Pumpkin Pie Cake

Prep: 15 minutes Bake: 60 minutes Assemble: 60 minutes


Cake:
1 c butter
2 c sugar
4 eggs
3 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1.5 c pureed pumpkin
3.5 c flour

Cream butter sugar and eggs
add pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt and mix
add flour and pumpkin
grease two pyrex bowls and add cake mix evenly
bake at 375 F for one hour

Pie filling:
1 1/3 c pumpkin puree
1 1/3 c sweetened condensed milk
1 egg
3 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 c hot water

Mix all ingredients together in order
pour into greased round cake pan and bake for 1 hour at 375 F at the same time as you bake the cake sections so as to save time.

Frosting:
6 T butter
4 c powdered sugar
2 T milk
1 T vanilla
Orange and Green food coloring

mix all ingredients and color 1/2 c green and all the rest orange

chill the cakes and pie in freezer until ready to assemble.

To Assemble and Frost:

1 c. of chocolate chips
two half circle cakes
one pumpkin pie without crust
Frosting(cream cheese frosting would be a wonderful substitute for the buttercream)

place one half of pumpkin cake round side down onto serving platter. Sprinkle chocolate chips onto cake, then place pumpkin pie portion on top of cake, cut to fit. sprinkle more chocoalte chips then place other half of pumpkin on top of pie. this may smoosh out some pie filling, dont worry about it, as long as it isnt gooping off the cake you are fine!
take about 1/2 cup of frosting and color green, color the rest orange and begin to frost cake in orange starting at the top and moving downward slowly and evenly with rounded knife or frosting tool. after you covered most of the cake, take knife and frost in downward line pattern from top to bottom of cake.
Put green in zip bag or pastry bag or frosting bag, whatever you have on hand. starting at top of cake, frost in a circlular pattern to form a small stub resembling a stem, continue to "draw" leaves and vines on the cake in a pattern to your liking. if you like, also add grass or more vines at the bottom of the cake ( i like to do that if i messed up or didnt have enough orange frosting!)
Serve and Enjoy!

Rice Pudding

Prep: 2 minutes Cook: 10 minutes


2 c. Leftover Rice (brown or white)
2 c. Milk
1tsp. Cinnamon
1 c. Sugar
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 Egg

Cook leftover rice and 1 1/2 cups of milk and sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Combine remaining milk and egg in separate bowl. Pour into saucepan with rice, milk and sugar while stirring. Cook 5 more minutes, or until mixture start to thicken. Turn off heat and add vanilla and 1/2 tsp. of cinnamon. Garnish with remaining cinnamon. serve hot or cold! Add whipped cream or ice cream if this dish is going to be a dessert. Enjoy!

S'more Pancakes

Prep: 5 minutes Cook: 2 minutes

Ingredients:

2 c. Pancake mix
1 1/2 c. Milk
1/2 c. Brown Sugar
2 tsp. Cinnamon
1/2 c. Chocolate Chips
1/2 c. Mini Marshmallows

Combine all ingredients in bowl, stir until just moistened. Preheat pan on Medium heat. Scoop pancake batter into heated pan. Wait 1 minute or less (depending on your stove) flip, cook one more minute. Serve with whipped cream and crumbled graham cracker if desired and enjoy by a warm campfire!

Coconut Buttercream Frosting

Ingredients:

1/2 c. Coconut Oil
1/2 c. Butter, softened
9 c. Powdered Sugar
2 T. Milk
1 tsp. Coconut extract (optional)

Cream Coconut oil and Butter. Add sugar one cup at a time blending well between cups. Add milk, 1 tsp. at a time until frosting reaches spreading consistency. If the coconut flavor isnt strong enough for you then add the tsp of extract with the milk.
Liberally frosts a two layered cake or 24 cupcakes.

Flora's Fudge

This NO BAKE recipe comes from a 1959 Disney's Sleeping Beauty comic book that my mother saved from her childhood!

Prep: 10 minutes Chill: 1 hour

Ingredients

3 oz unsweetened Baking Chocolate
1/4 c. Butter
3 c. Powdered Sugar
1 Egg
1 tsp. Vanilla

Melt unsweetened baking chocolate and butter in small sauce pan over medium heat.
Mix in half of the powdered sugar. Beat in the egg (remember it was the 50s, you can substitute egg for 1/4 c. vegetable oil) Add remaining sugar and vanilla. Press into 8x8 baking pan lined with wax paper (make sure to line it or it will be impossible to remove!) Chill for 1 hour, or until firm!

Basil Pesto

Prep: 5 minutes

Approx 15 leaves of fresh Basil
2 to 3 cloves of garlic
3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil

Combine all ingredients in a food processor or blender. Blend/ process for 1 minute or until garlic and basil leaves are finely chopped. Serve with pasta of your choice! Serves four.