Cammy I once again found myself with bananas that need to be used. I was also craving oatmeal cookies so I did a search for banana oatmeal cookies resulting in a recipe that required two bananas, one cup of oats, and 1/3 cup chocolate chips. I substituted the chocolate chips with raisins. Here is a picture, but BLECK! These were gross. Do not attempt! I may as well have just thrown the bananas in the trash and saved the oats and raisins! Still craving oatmeal cookies, I fell back on the recipe on the oatmeal container. Some things are simply meant to be done the standard way. I shared some with my mom and still have some left. However, I don't imagine they will last for too much longer. Afterall, I wouldn't want them to get hard and stale! Georgia This week I was back in the kitchen and trying to recreate the amazing chocolate covered key lime pie we had in the Florida Keys. Did I succeed? Not entirely. Were they delish? Depends on who you ask Actually, they were pretty freaking amazing. A couple of things that happened during the making of these little lovelies. I couldn't find my cupcake pan liners so I ended up just using a sheet pan and cutting them in circles once they were fully cooled off. Doing them this way made them way too thin to use a stick. So these were more like Key Lime Pie bites Hits and misses. Some weeks it's all about trial and error
Until next week, Cammy & Georgia Cammy Carrying the German theme into Sunday, I made this delicious Peach Kuchen. I was worried about my hands hurting from "cutting in the butter" but it was not bad at all. The crust is actually more like a shortbread crust than anything else. The peaches were very sweet. I did bake an additional 10 minutes as the crust didn't seem to be done under the peaches. That may well be preference though.
Cammy My pie runneth over. No, Seriously, there is a bottom crust. I promise!
Cammy I wasn't going to bake anything this week. Nothing at all. Nada! Well, guess what. I found the most enticing recipe, maybe almost ever. Comfort food at it's finest. I couldn't wait to get it out of the oven so I could try it out. I even made the icing to drizzle over it which is something I rarely do. It was worth it... so very worth it! And if that wasn't enough, I also just pulled banana cranberry bread from the oven! I have let it cool some before I sliced it, but I couldn't resist! :) Shhhhh, don't tell anyone, but I didn't coat the cranberries in sugar. I rather like the tart taste of them!
Cammy Who would have thought that you can use an air fryer to bake bread? I have been wanting to try this ever since I was gifted my air fryer for my birthday in March. I finally purchased an air fryer accessory kit that made this possible. I didn't have very high hopes after my Texas Roadhouse rolls didn't rise like they should. I will now have to try those again! Anyway, the bread turned out fabulous! 10 minutes to mix in the stand mixer, 1 hour to rise in the pan and then 20 minutes to bake in the air fryer! It turned out yummy! I will definitely make this again!
Cammy A cousin posted on social media recently that she had made potato chip cookies just like her mom used to make. I had never heard of them before, so, of course, I really had to try them myself. Off I went to search the internet for a recipe. I will absolutely be making these again! They are delicious and I find myself wondering where they have been all my life!
Cammy
Georgia We had some leftover over ripe bananas from the previous Saturday Bites challenge. I try to bake something that is easily shared because I don't like to keep anything too tempting in the house and I'm trying to use up what's in the house. So this muffin recipe was a win win. Leftover bananas and leftover dried apricots. The hubs liked these so much he actually ate 2 in one sitting. The mashed bananas make these muffins very moist and they taste much like banana nut bread, but with dried apricots. Cammy This week I really wanted to try something I had never baked before, something different, out of my comfort zone and also something that is considered to be diabetic friendly. This recipe jumped out at me, likely because it had the word "orange" in the name of it. It really kind of reminded me of a dreamsicle. :) Who doesn't love a dreamsicle? Well, it doesn't taste like an orange dreamsicle, but it still tastes quite yummy. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to share this one. I really love how we encourage each other to step outside our comfort zones to make or bake things we normally wouldn't.
Stay tuned in the coming weeks. Jen's daughter Jade is the baker in their household and is going to start joining us on Sunday's. I love, love, love when young people are in the kitchen making, baking and creating. Until next week, Georgia, Cammy, Nikita and soon to be Jade Cammy I love zucchini bread and I love blueberries. Who'd have thought they would go together so nicely?
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