Mango-Banana Bread

So, It's vacation, and you promise to yourself that you'll get to the beach with all the intentions of eating good. You bring bananas and mangos and somehow on the trip from Tallahassee to St. George Island the fruit goes from beautiful specimens to Quasimodo.

Will your six year old eat a banana with more blemishes on it than a Daughters of the Confederacy meeting has liver spots? Not bloody likely ....

So what are you going to do with all that mangled fruit? Sweet bread of course.

Turn your oven on to 350 degrees, and grease your favorite loaf pan.

Dry ingredients -

2 cups of AP flour
2 tblsp Cardamom
1 tblsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Baking soda
1/2 tsp kosher salt

Wet ingredients -

1 1/2 cups mashed fruit
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup sugar (or honey for a moist cake)
1/3 cup buttermilk (or milk with a tablespoon of lemon juice mixed in)

Mix the dry, mix the wet, combine the two, pour into the pan

Bake for an hour or so , until the tothpick comes out clean.


Dave

Thumper Cakes

Thumper and I decided we needed cupcakes this weekend. So I looked at a few recipes, got the general jist and away we went into the kitchen.

These were Banana-Chocolate Chip Cupcakes we ended up with.

• 2 cups flour
• 2 bananas
• 3/4 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 package milk chocolate chips
• 3 Tbsp Cocoa

Preheat the oven to 350, spoon the batter into the paper cups, try to be neat ... but remember you have a 3 year old helping, so thats pretty much impossible.

Bake for about 20-25 minutes until done.

You can frost them if you decide to. But! remember they transport much easier without the frosting. I can give one to Thumper without worrying about stickyness everywhere in the TV room.