Tag: Banana

elvis fluffernutter cookies

These cookies are made with brown butter, mashed bananas, maple and vanilla extracts, raw honey, chopped bacon, peanut butter, peanut brittle, and mini marshmallows! It’s based on two sandwiches, the Elvis (bacon, bananas, marshmallow, and sometimes honey), and the fluffernutter (peanut butter and marshmallow). I decided to go with less flour and to brown the…

December 7, 2019
Banana Raspberry Bread

A couple of days ago, Ben said that I never bake anything anymore that is specifically for him, and that I always giveaway stuff for other people, like my coworkers. So today I got up and decided to make something that’s all for him. This was to hopefully make up for that comment, and for all the…

June 30, 2015
brown butter cherry coconut banana bread

Okay, so THIS is my last post at the old place, I promise. We are moving to a new place this Thursday. It has a bigger kitchen, but the lighting isn’t as good as this place. Oh well. A few days ago I learned that Facebook is moving into this neighborhood. 2,000 employees will move…

February 22, 2015
Bananas + Chocolate Cake Batter = Success

I wanted to find out if I could just throw two mashed bananas into a chocolate cake batter and expect that everything will just turn out fine. So I did! And the answer is…yes! But it might depend on the recipe. I would not conclude that this is true for any cake recipe. It seemed to…

January 16, 2014
A Glorious Morning Muffin

I tend not to make new year’s resolutions that are supposed to start strictly on the 1st of January. Rather than do that, I usually start pondering making changes in my life right around the middle of the holidays, and after the 1st will slowly gravitate towards a goal. This has been helpful in making changes…

January 12, 2014
Banana Banana Bread

All Recipes has a banana bread that is very popular that I hadn’t tried yet, called banana banana bread, because you use twice the number of bananas. It makes sense to me, although I think if you are going to call something banana bread, it should already have more than just a couple of old, overripe bananas…

November 18, 2013