Extreme Banana Nut Bread

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 cup butter or margarine
• 2 cups white sugar
• 2 cups mashed overripe bananas
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
2. Sift the flour, salt and baking soda into a large bowl. In a separate bowl, mix together the butter or margarine and sugar until smooth. Stir in the bananas, eggs, and walnuts until well blended. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry mixture, and stir just until blended. Divide the batter evenly between the two loaf pans.
3. Bake for 60 to 70 minutes in the preheated oven, until a knife inserted into the crown of the loaf comes out clean. Let the loaves cool in the pans for at least 5 minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack, and cool completely. Wrap in aluminum foil to keep in the moisture. Ideally, refrigerate the loaves for 2 hours or more before serving.

 Recipe from All Recipes, picture from my kitchen.

Secret Pumpkin Cake

Ingredients:

1 pkg. yellow cake mix

4 eggs

3/4 c. butter, softened

1 can pumpkin

1/2 c packed brown sugar

1/2 c. sugar

2/3 c. milk

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 chopped pecans (opt.)

 

Directions:

Reserve..........1 cup cake mix.

Mix................ remaining cake mix with 1 beaten egg and 1/2 c. butter

Press............. into 9 x 13 pan

Mix................ pumpkin, 3 eggs, brown sugar, 1/4 c. sugar, milk and cinnamon in bowl

Pour.............. over cake mixture.

Combine......... reserved cake mix, pecans, 1/4 c. butter and 1/4 c. sugar in bowl, mixing until crumbly.

Spread .......... crumb topping over cake.

Bake............... according to cake box directions

Cake is done when tooth pick comes out clean.

 

* If you use pumpkin pie filling, omit the sugars and cinnamon

Open House

We hosted an Open House on October 2nd.  It was a great success.  I made these cookies for favors.  We then had Buffalo Chicken Dip, BBQ Meatballs, and Veggie and Fruit Trays.  We had about 40 family and friends coming over to look at the work that we "Lenny" has done on our house.  I am so proud of all that he has accomplished.  We have some more to do, but we are well over half way finished.

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