Dutch Baby

 These Dutch Babies are great for breakfast or dinner.  So delicious!

Ingredients:

3 eggs

1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup milk

1 Tablespoon sugar

Pinch of nutmeg

4 Tablespoons butter

Toppings of your choice.  Any soft fruit should work, peaches, berries, bananas, or use canned pie filling

Whipped Cream, optional

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Combine eggs, flour, milk, sugar and nutmeg in a blender jar and blend until smooth. Batter may also be mixed by hand.

Place butter in a heavy 10-inch skillet or baking dish and place in the oven. As soon as the butter has melted (watch it so it does not burn) add the batter to the pan, return pan to the oven and bake for 20 minutes, until the pancake is puffed and golden. Lower oven temperature to 300 degrees and bake five minutes longer.

Remove pancake from oven, cut into wedges and serve at once topped with your choice of fruit and whipped cream if desired.

Makes 3 or 4 servings

Banana Jumbos

These cookies are my family's favorite. They create lots of excitement when we see or smell them.

 

2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter or margarine
1 cup mashed bananas, about 2 large
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large bowl with mixer at low speed, beat all ingredients except walnuts and chocolate chips about 3 minutes or until well blended, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Add walnuts and chocolates and beat with a spoon until mixed. Drop by scant 1/4 cupfuls, about 2 inches apart, onto large cookie sheet. (I only get about 6 on each cookie sheet at a time.)

Bake 10 to 12 minutes until lightly browned on bottom. Cool a couple of minutes then remove to wire racks to cool.
Makes about 2 1/2 dozen cookies.
They are soft and moist and cakelike in texture. Store in an airtight container.

Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are so delicious.  Crispy on the outside and wonderfully soft on the inside.  This time I used 1 cup of miniature Hershey kisses and 1 cup of mini semi-sweet chocolate chips instead of 2 cups of one kind.

Great Winter Cookie Plate Don't you think?

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups butter, melted (3 sticks)

2 cups sugar

3/4 cup mashed very ripe banana  (2 medium or 3 small)

4 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs, beaten

4 cups flour

2 cups (1 package) chocolate chips, optional

1 cup chopped nuts of your choice, optional

1/2 cup sugar for later use

Directions:

Stir sugar, eggs, baking soda, and salt into the melted butter.  Add the banana puree and mix thoroughly.  Mix in the flour and then the chocolate chips and nuts.  Cover the bowl and refrigerate it for 4 hours or up to overnight. (Just mix them up in the evening and bake them the next day.)

When you’re ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Roll the chilled dough into walnut sized balls with your hands. I use my small cookie scoop. (This dough is sticky.  You can wear plastic gloves to keep the dough from from sticking. It's amazing how well the gloves work.  Try it.)

Put 1/2 cup white sugar in a small bowl and roll the balls in it.  Place the dough balls on a greased cookie sheet. (Or use parchment paper--my favorite.) Press them down just a little.  Bake for 10 to 12 minutes at 350 degrees, until they are lightly golden in color.  Let them cool on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes; then move them to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Makes about 5 dozen cookies. 

These cookies freeze well before or after baking.

Just bake some.  When you bite into one you'll be so happy.