Category Archives: Cakes, Muffins & Rolls

This is for Sweet Cakes, Muffins and Rolls

Buddy’s Chocolate Chip Nut Banana Bread Loaf

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That’s a mouthful

I merged a lot of recipes that came from family and friends then added a little Dr Google to leverage all that is out there. You can add / substitute chips and nuts as you wish, I also think that this would go amazing by adding dried fruit as well such as cherries or blueberries! Also makes great cupcakes!

Oven temperature is really important here, hard outer shell and uncooked centre means too hot, hockey puck means too cold… I found this out the hard way (mind the pun!)

Outstanding, even if the oven is too hot and it is an uncooked centre, it is hard to keep people away from this masterpiece

Servings: makes one loaf
PREP: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: one hour
Ingredients:
  • 250g Plain flour
  • 1 tsp Baking Powder
  • 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda (Baking Soda)
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 3 or 4 Ripe Bananas
  • 1 tsp Milk (or buttermilk)
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • 1 tsp Nutmeg
  • 2 tsp Vanilla
  • 110g Butter 110g
  • 200g Caster Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 200g Milk Chocolate Chips
  • 150g Chopped Walnuts
Preparation:
    1. Preheat oven to 170° C / 350°f
    2. Grease the sides of the loaf tin and line bottom of it with parchment paper (makes it easier to get the loaf out once baked)
    3. Cream butter with sugar in a mixer then add eggs one at a time to mix completely
    4. Add mashed bananas
    5. Mix well
    6. Add dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt)
    7. Mix well
    8. Add flavouring (cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla)
    9. Mix well and add milk (or buttermilk) while mixing
    10. Fold in chocolate chips and nuts
    11. Pour into the greased and lined loaf tin and bake in the preheated oven for approximately 1 hours (loaf done when a toothpick poked into the centre comes out clean).
    12. Cool in the tine for ~10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack

 

Awfully good cold or warm with butter or ice-cream! or just a simple slice.

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Cinnamon Roll Cake

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This is my mix of a number of online recipes, bit dry for me, but Zoey loved it…

Ingredients:

Batter:

  • 3 Cups Flour
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 1 Cup Sugar
  • 4 tsp Baking Powder
  • 1 1/2 Cups Milk
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 tsp Vanilla
  • 1/2 Cup Melted Butter

Topping:

  • 1 Cup Softened Butter
  • 1 Cup Brown Sugar
  • 2 Tbsp Flour
  • 1 Tbsp Cinnamon

Icing:

  • 8 Tbsp Softened Butter
  • 1 1/2 Cups Powdered Sugar
  • 1/4 Cup Cream Cheese
  • 1/2 tsp Vanilla
  • 1/8 tsp Salt

Directions:
For Batter:

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F | 180°C. Spray a 9×13 glass baking dish with cooking spray or butter. Set aside
  2. In a mixer add the flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, milk, eggs and vanilla. Once combined well, slowly stir in the melted butter. Pour into the prepared 9×13 baking dish.

For Topping:

  1. In a large bowl, cream butter, brown sugar, flour and cinnamon together until well combined and creamy. Drop evenly over the batter by the tablespoonfuls and use a knife to marble / swirl through the cake. Play around with this, it may make sense to make a few random holes in the batter and fill with topping prior to swirling as the topping is enough to cover the batter otherwise.
  2. Bake at 350°F | 180°C for 35-40 minutes or when a toothpick inserted near the center comes out nearly clean (last batch took almost 50 minutes)

For Glaze:

  1. While the cake is baking, mix the Icing ingredients together with a mixer until fluffy.
  2. When the cake is done, spread generously with icing while the cake is still warm.

Serve Warm or at room temperature

Bon appetite!

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Banana Bread

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This is Teddi Beckman’s recipe. I have modified it a bit by adding chocolate chips.

Ingredients:
  • 1/2 c shortening
  • 3 medium sized bananas
  • 1 c sugar
  • 2 c flour
  • 2 beaten eggs
  • 1 tsp soda
  • 3 Tbsp buttermilk
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 c Chocolate Chips
Directions:
  1. Cream shortening and sugar until smooth.
  2. Add beaten eggs and mix thoroughly
  3. Add milk, mashed bananas and dry ingredients.
  4. Mix and place in greased loaf pan
  5. Bake at 350°F | 180°C for 1 hour

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