I haven't tried this recipe that I stumbled across, but it sure does sound good:
The credit for this goes to: http://cookiesandcups.com/reeses-peanut-butter-banana-bread/

Reese’s Peanut Butter Banana Bread

Ingredients

• 3 very ripe bananas, mashed
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/4 cup Canola or Vegetable oil
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 8 oz bag of Reese’s Mini cups

How to Make

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Grease your loaf pan (I used an 8 x 4 pan) with butter or shortening.
3. In a medium bowl whisk together your flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt, set aside.
4. In a large bowl stir together your bananas, peanut butter, oil, egg and sugars.
5. Pour your dry ingredients into your wet ingredients and stir until just combined. Batter will be lumpy. DO NOT OVER-STIR.
6. Fold in your Reese’s Mini cups and spread batter into prepared pan.
7. Bake for approx 1 hour or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
8. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then loosen the edges of the pan with a knife and remove from loaf pan, transferring bread to a cooling rack.

Notes

*I bake my breads in a stone loaf pan, but certainly you don’t have to. BUT if you notice the bread browning too fast, lower the temperature down to 325° and loosely tent it with foil.

**Also, some readers have noticed that if you over-stir the batter the texture will be crumbly, so make sure not to over-stir!

Good Saturday Morning All!
I got locked out of my blog (actually I forgot my password and how to get back in here!) But I'm back.

I found this great reading recipe for "Blarney Stone Cookies" and I'd like to share it with you, I haven't tried it as yet, but I will be making them later on. 

Blarney Stones

1 cup butter, softened (not shortening)
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 package pistachio pudding mix (4-serving)
2 eggs
6 drops green food coloring
2 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups butterscotch  chips
1 cup pecans, finely chopped
Cream butter, sugars, vanilla and pudding mix.  Add eggs and food coloring.  Mix in flour and baking soda.  Add butterscotch chips and chopped pecans.  Chill for several hours.  Roll into walnut-sized balls and place 2″ apart on ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake for 8 minutes at 350 degrees.
Notes:  If you are at high-altitude, like we are, you will need to add an extra 1/2 cup flour to the dough.  Also, I am the least patient person on the planet and when I want cookies, I want them now, so I have never refrigerated my dough and they have turned out fine.  If you do refrigerate the dough, they just don’t spread quite as much when you bake them.



Now this recipe came from: http://modernmollymormon.com/blarney-stones so please feel free to visit her website and let her know how you like the cookies. 

Enjoy!

Good Tuesday morning, Yay! No new snow overnight and the weather people are saying just a dusting here during the day.

Good Monday Morning fellow bloggers!

Last November I started posting on Facebook what I was thankful for that day, (seeing as how Thanksgiving is in the month of November, that seemed like a good time to start) but I want to start earlier this year by posting each day, what I'm extra thankful for that morning.  Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful each morning that I wake to see daylight!

So feel free to join me and post your own "thankful" posts here or start your own!

Today I'm thankful for: that we received a light dusting of snow, not inches!

Rani's Banana Bread

This recipe is one that I have taken ingredients from one or two recipes and created my own creation.  Others may have this recipe also, but today, I created it for my use.

Ingredients:

3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
3 teaspoons cinnamon
1 cup chopped walnuts

Mix these ingredients in large mixing bowl.

In another bowl mix together:

3 eggs
1 cup oil
1/2 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 ripe bananas mashed

Then pour the mixture into the dry ingredients and mix until no more lumps.

Pour into 2 loaf pans (you can spray with baking spray or grease and flour the pans).

Bake at 325 for about 55-65 minutes, or until the middle is set.  Let cool for about 10 minutes or so and then turn onto wire rack. 

Slice when cool enough to handle (if you can wait that long), and Enjoy!

***Feel free to make your own alterations for this bread, if you find it's to dry, then add more milk or if you want more banana flavor, add another banana!

Jan 29, 2013

Good morning Blog friends,
It's a warm day in the Chicago burbs! We may break the record of 67 today! Then back to "normal" Chicago weather.
No matter what the weather is, take the time to enjoy the little things that make the day great!
Have a good one!

My intro to blogging

Today, thanks to the encouragement of my daughter Sabri and and computer knowledge of a wonderful friend RyanAnn, the "Life as Seen By Rani" blog has been created.  Check back to find various recipes, thoughts and other stuff as life goes on.