Banana Orange Coconut Loaf

I really love baking and creating new things for us all to eat in the house... but a few of us in the house have been sick, and I felt like filling my daughter with freshly squeezed Orange Juice, so I squeezed about 7 oranges for our drinks and was left with a ton of pulp on the machine. What to do, I will not waste all that fiber.

So baking was the only option!

Banana Orange Coconut Loaf

2 cups of Flour ( I used 1 cup of All Purpose White flour + 1 cup of Whole Wheat flour)

2/3 cup of sugar

1/3 cup of Butter

2 Eggs

1 tsp of Baking Powder

1/2 tsp of Baking Soda

2 bananas

1/3 of cup of Orange Pulp

1/2 of Coconut (toasted coconut are just as good)

1 tsp of Vanilla Extract

Glaze

1/3 of a cup of Icing sugar

Milk

Set the over for 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Blend the Sugar and butter first. Add the eggs until fluffy. Add the Vanilla extract and the orange pulp. Mash the bananas in a bowl.

Sift together the flours, baking soda, and baking powder. Now start combining the dry ingredients to the wet one with a folding motion with a spoon or baking spatula. Put some flour, some bananas and some coconut fold, repeat.

Put the mixture in Greased cooking pan, I used a 9x5 cake loaf but you can use cupcake, cake pans.

And enjoy!

Cheers!~

Pantry Purge!

I haven't stopped making food since the day I started making brownies!! While it has been fun for every one's palette, it hit a nerve that day!

I can bake, I actually am a great baker (I have plenty of bad qualities so I am not boasting here,)but as I started to bake I realised that I am always willing to pick up store bought cookies, brownies, go for a Starbucks run when I have nearly every ingredient to bake, cook or brew all my favorite goodies!

So I am on a kick, instead of letting anything in my house sit for months or even a year on end, and I am referring to dry products why not make my own! I like artisan breads, why not make my own? I almost feel ridiculous that this is something I am fully capable of doing myself but I wastefully pay for others to do.

So for the next month I will continue to use up the ingredients in my baking cupboard, my spices that don't get used on a daily basis! So excited to see what I can come up with!

Cheers!~

A Brownie of a Good time!

I am always on twitter... I love it, I will not LIE!

My feed is always full, a constant update of things people are sharing, places they are seeing, people they are meeting and food they are eating. Ohhh the food they are eating!! This really has made me a gluten for punishment, I want to eat everything I see... more so on days that I have zero interest but on days where I fall to the cravings I walk over to the baking cupboard and go wild. The last fierce piece of YUM, Brownies!

Recipe: "Best Brownies" Hershey's

1/2 cup of butter
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/2 cup of all purpose flour
1/2 cup of Cocoa
1/4 tsp of baking powder
1/4 tsp of salt
1/2 cups of chopped nuts (optional)--- I have never put nuts in mine!!

Heat over at 350 F grease 8" or 9" brownie pan, stir butter, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl, add the eggs, beat well!

Combine the dry ingredients and slowly add them to the butter mixture beating til well blended. Spread in pan! You'll have the spread, this is a very thick mixture and might seem to thick, don't over analyse it, you did it right!

Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until the sides start pulling away from the pan.

I like to make an icing for my brownies and this time I made a ganache icing, that I don't have a recipe for but I make ganache and then start adding icing components, a standard chocolate icing shall do!

And voila! These don't last long in my house, perfect acroutement to a glass of cold milk!

Cheers!~

Another busy week & weekend!

So my baby turned 2 this weekend. I feel funny calling her my baby, when she blatantly isn't one anymore. She's in her full prime of toddlerhood!

We threw a birthday party for her, it was nice there were plenty of people here, but I wish I had felt more up to it--- I wish I had spent days and days decorating and preparing. The blistering heat we had here in the city and the lack of a functioning A/C made me not want to turn on my stove all week. Other than making dinner for my family, there was no way I was turning my gas stove on.

I also been in a slump, a pretty bad slump. To say I sat around and did nothing all week was the reason it wasn't. I went to the beach with my girlfriend and her son and spent one of those squeltering days somewhere far cooler than my place, had a fantastic chat with my mommy friends but for some reason I can't get motivated in any way. I can't begin to work on my happiness project this month, it's a reality I really am struggling with.

But I am going to celebrate the fact that my daughter turned 2 and share a little poem a friend of mine shared on his blog.

When Elmo isn't ticklish,

And Pooh Bear hates honey,

When Tigger stops bouncing,

And Goofy isn't funny,

When Peter Pan can't fly,

And Simba never roars,

When Alice in Wonderland

Can't fit through the small doors,

When Dumbo's ears are small,

And happily ever after isn't true...

That's when I will stop

Loving you

Well I hope you all have a great weekend, hope you enjoy the image of chocolate cupcakes I made with some very colourful sprinkles.

Cheers!~