Banana Bread With Chocolate Chips
I’ve made banana bread with chocolate chips numerous times but when I searched this food blog for the recipe as a reference, I couldn’t find it. There’s a Banana Bread With Nutella recipe though. I might have posted the Banana Bread With Chocolate Chips recipe in the other other food blogs I used to write for years ago. Well, it’s time to put this in my own archives so here it goes.
Peanut Butter Cupcakes W/ Chocolate Frosting
To tell you the truth, I’m not into peanut butter that much. A peanut butter sandwich hits the spot when I’m really starving and I need to get something quick. Reese’s Pieces is good once in a while too. But like I said, I’m not that fond of it.
On the occasional days that I get a craving for peanut butter, sometimes eating a spoon of it would suffice but sometimes I’ll make it all grand by making peanut butter cupcakes. My family sure appreciates it coz they are definitely peanut butte lovers.
| Peanut Butter Cupcakes W/ Chocolate Frosting |
- 4 tbsp of butter, softened
- 1 1/8 cups of light brown sugar
- 1/3 (or more) cup of peanut butter (creamy or crunchy)
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cup of flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/3 cup of milk
- 1 stick of butter
- 3 cups confectionery sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
FROSTING:
- Preheat over the to 350°, Line the muffin pans with the paper cases.
- Put butter, sugar and peanut butter into a mixer bowl and beat together for about 2 minutes. Gradually add the eggs, beating well after addition. Add the vanilla extract.
- Combine flour and baking soda in a separate bowl. Using a metal spoon, fold the flour into the mixture, alternating with the milk.
- Spoon batter into the paper cases. Bake the cupcakes for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
- Let the cupcakes cool completely on a wire rack before frosting.
- To make the frosting: Beat together the butter, confectionery sugar, vanilla, and unsweetened cocoa powder. If the frosting is slightly runny just add more confectionery sugar.
- Frost the cupcakes and enjoy.
Chocolate-Yema Truffles
Thanks to my favorite Filipina Actress Ms. Marian Rivera, who’ve inspired me to make truffles, coz now I can’t stop, Haha! I first made red velvet cake truffles, then I made chocolate truffle pops which I haven’t posted yet, and now here are chocolate-yema truffles. WARNING, these can be detrimental to your diet. They are so decadent that you’d find yourself fighting with yourself about not having another 1 then you’ll end up chastising yourself after finishing the 3rd or possibly the 4th truffle. If you can discipline yourself to only have 1 chocolate-yema truffle a day, then good for you. If not, try to limit 2 per day. That’s All! (count how many times I said “yourself”)
Mom’s White Zucchini Bread
I’ve made Zucchini Bread before but if you search for the recipe in the search box right now though, you won’t find any. It wasn’t all that bad really. I think it was just on the dry side and the glaze I drizzled on top didn’t look all that pretty in the pictures. That’s what I get for trying to be all fancy-schmancy in here. But thanks to my Mother-in-Law, I now have a zucchini bread recipe as of today, October 5th, 2011. My in-laws from New York were here for a visit last week and brought along delicious loaves of zucchini bread and banana bread. I ate 3 slices of the zucchini bread the first night we got it. I made sure to take pictures of it first of course so I could post the recipe as soon as I got it from her.
Red Velvet Cake Truffles
I can’t remember what party my sister-in-law was hosting last year(Halloween Me Thinks) but that’s where I had some cake pops which were really good and thought was such a fun idea for cakes. She ordered it from someone and if I remember it right, a brick with different flavors(red velvet, chocolate, yellow?) was like $5. Of course I wanted to learn how to make it so a few days after that party I knew right away where to go. Bakerella, that’s where. I found a recipe of red velvet cake balls.
I’ve had that recipe bookmarked for a year and had been oogling at all her amazing and fun ideas for cake pops as well. I’ve never made any of them coz I’m always intimated with things like that. Although in the back of my mind I know I’d make it sometime, I just didn’t know when. Until one day in Twitterland, a celebrity(Ana Feleo) tweeted how good the truffles that another celebrity(Marian Rivera) made. I asked if she took a picture coz I wanted to see them but unfortunately she and other people ate ‘em all up before she could take a picture. So I told myself, “DEXIE, if that celebrity who’s so busy with shooting a weekly TV show plus a movie has time to make truffles I’m sure you can set aside some time away from facebooking and twittering to make truffles too.” Yup, I motivate myself by talking to myself. My husband said I should probably stop doing that.
Anyhooooooooooo, let me show you how I made red velvet cake truffles with the guidance of Bakerella’s recipe. It’s actually easy to make but the process is elaborate so forget the daytime soaps(or whatever you’re watching that time of course) coz the truffles need your exclusive attention. I had a cute little helper with me so it didn’t take as long as I’ve anticipated. This is definitely something you and the kids could do to bond in the kitchen.
Chocolate-Peanut Butter Pudding Pie
Simple, fast, and decadent chocolate dessert that doesn’t need much ingredients and no cooking at all. Those instant putting mixes that are less than a $ are quite handy when you’re having a sugar fix. The question is, do you have the patience to wait for the pudding pie to set? There’s no scientific chemical reaction needed to have a perfect pudding pie. All you need is the ability to wait for it to firm up a bit. The trick is chilling the pie for as long as you can to have a firm yet soft pie instead of a jiggly and runny pie.
Pam Anderson’s Flan With Cream Cheese
When The Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond advised her readers to make Pam Anderson’s flan with cream cheese, I obediently followed. And I am so glad I did coz O-M-G, this flan with cream cheese is absolutely DIVINE!
Crunchy Praline Carolina Pecans
When we had our Yard Sale this past Saturday, there was some kind of a community yard sale around the town proper as well. Some of the sellers had crafts and novelty snacks and goodies. My husband stopped at one “booth” when he went to get us some lunch and bought Crunchy Praline Carolina Pecans. $6 for a 4oz bag. Yup, that’s expensive but the pecans were soooo good.
White Chocolate Cheesecake W/ Thin Mint Crust & Peach Compote Topping
This White Chocolate Cheesecake W/ Thin Mint Crust & Peach Compote Topping got a mixed reviews from the family. My son and I loved it. The husband whom by the way suggested I should use thin mints instead of the oreos cookies (in his defense, he didn’t know I was making cheesecake when he suggested it) thought the crust was weird with the cheesecake and peach topping. The Princess only liked the cheesecake part.
Monkey Bread
I’ve read about Monkey Bread before but never really tasted it until September last year when we moved to this new house. A neighbor gave us a bundt of Monkey Bread as a welcome gesture for being the new neighbors. That was really nice of her. She’d given the kids some goodies after that day too. Halloween and Christmas. I’m pretty sure she’ll give them something for Easter as well.
I had a sweet craving the other day, and I was really tired of the kids’ disappointed sigh every time they opened the cookie jar and it’s empty. Monkey Bread is really easy to make so I thought about it. It’s easy to make because most recipes call for tubes of biscuits. My dilemma was I didn’t have tubes of biscuits in my fridge. BUT, making biscuits dough is really not that hard. So, I googled for a monkey bread recipe that doesn’t use Pillsbury biscuit dough. Yup, I googled.
