Coconut Banana Bread

Banana Bread
Ingredients
• 1/2 cup margarine or butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup mashed banana
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts (omit if you don't like nuts)
• 1/2 cup sour cream

This is not in the recipe, but today I added 1 cup of toasted coconut. I mixed it in after the sour cream additon. It gave it a tropical taste and it was very filling!

Directions
Grease 1 large loaf pan.
Cream margarine, sugar, eggs and vanilla.
Add dry ingredients, then bananas, nuts and sour cream.
Mix well.
Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

French Toast

French Toast
Makes 10 pieces
bread (I use raisin cinnamon bread)
8 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 pinch of nutmeg
1/2 cup milk

Whisk all ingredients together and dip bread in egg mix before putting in grill pan. flip and toast both sides until browned. Top with butter, powdered sugar, and syrup.

Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with Seven Minute Frosting from Martha

Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

1 (18.25 oz) package devils food cake mix
1 (5.9 oz) package instant chocolate pudding mix
1 cup sour cream
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1/2 warm water
2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

In large bowl, mix together cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, oil, eggs and water. Stir in chocolate chips. Pour into lined cupcake tins and bake about 25 minutes or until top springs back when lightly touched or use wooden toothpick test.

Seven Minute Frosting
Makes 10 cups.
1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
2/3 cup water
6 large egg whites, room temperature
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Heat 1 1/2 cups sugar, the corn syrup, and water in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly, until sugar dissolves. Raise heat to medium-high, and bring to a boil. Wash down sides of pan with a wet pastry brush to prevent sugar crystals from forming. Cook until syrup registers 235 degrees on a candy thermometer. Pour into a glass measuring cup.
Meanwhile, beat whites on medium speed until soft peaks form. Reduce to medium-low, and add remaining 2 tablespoons sugar. Pour syrup into whites in a slow, steady stream down the side of the bowl. Raise speed to medium-high. Beat until stiff peaks form, about 7 minutes. Beat in vanilla. Use immediately.

I added berries to complete them, but any decoration will do!

HAPPY 4th of JULY!!!

Salsa

1 28oz. can whole tomatoes
1 medium onion, slightly chopped
1 bunch of fresh cilantro, washed and ends cut off
2 1/4 teaspoon crushed garlic
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
2oz diced green chiles
3-5 tepin balls, 5 would be considered SPICY!
They are sold at Central Market in the area where you buy bagged mexican spices. Sometimes they are called petin balls too, Kroger sells them under this name.

Chop all ingredients together in a food processor until it's the consistency you like it.

Transformer's Cupcakes

Clayton wanted Transformer's on his cupcakes this year. Well, our a/c broke and so I did a quicker version but wanted to show pictures anyhow.