This simple crepe recipe is a welcome alternative to pancakes or waffles. Takes just a few minutes to put together, plus a little wait time. I like to freeze extras -- just top with ice cream, fold and enjoy a beautiful dessert!
Delicious dessert that tastes like Starbucks!
Aebleskiver is a Danish dessert of sweet, puffy pancake balls cooked in an aebleskiver pan and served hot with syrup, honey, jam, or powdered sugar.
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Libby's. All opinions are 100% mine. Whoa. Hold the phone. A pumpkin recipe in April?? Most of us think about pumpkin and our minds immediately go to Thanksgiving and fall. Pumpkin is just a fall ingredient, right? No way! I'm here to change that,
My older daughter just started sixth grade. That means, not including this year, she has been in school for six years. At roughly 180 days per school year, that comes out to 1080 days that she has spent in school so far. And the number of times she has bought her lunch in those 1080 days? Once. That's right, I made the other 1079 lunches. Her sister, who's in second grade, has also bought only one time, bringing her homemade lunch total to 359. Needless to say, I'm always looking for ideas to spice up their lunches. So I was intrigued when I happened upon this post from Jessica at Stay at Home-ista: One Week in Kindergarten Lunches. I love her lunch ideas and recommend that you go over and check them out. I was particularly intrigued, however, by her choice of packaging. She packs many of her daughter's snacks in Ball Freezer Jars, the type of jar one uses when making freezer jam. I sent her an email asking about it and this was her reply: "I love the ball jars since they are dishwasher, microwave, freezer safe and they keep things from getting squished." Well it just so happened that I had some freezer jars tucked away from a little freezer jam experiment of yore. (Did you know that I have a peach tree? And that the peaches all tend to ripen within a four week period? And if you don't pick those peaches they go splat all over your patio? Well they do. And thus, my moderately successful attempt at making freezer jam. But that's a post for another time.) And those little jars got me thinking. They're so... cup-like. And that made me think of drinks. But these are cups that you can freeze, so that got me thinking about frozen drinks, like smoothies! (Because my daughters' school really frowns upon Pina Coladas...) And that's when it hit me: I could make smoothies, freeze them in the Ball jars, put them in my daughters' lunches in the a.m. and they would likely be defrosted by lunch. Yesterday was my maiden run. My smoothies include Greek yogurt, OJ, frozen berries and bananas. I would give you measurements if I had them. I tend to eyeball it. One Magic Bullet's worth of smoothie fills two 8 oz. Ball jars. I made two batches and sent each girl to school with a smoothie. The verdict when they got home? An enthusiastic thumbs up. Both smoothies were perfectly defrosted by noon and my girls were the belles of the lunchroom. So--what are your favorite lunch box ideas? I'd love to hear them. ('Cause by my calculations, I still have over 3000 lunches left to go...) (I had to include pictures of both lunch boxes. Fairness is everything...)
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There's nothing like the smell of banana bread baking to make me happy. I started craving it after going to Starbucks the other day and trying a piece of their bread. Ick. I was not a fan, it was a bit bland for my liking, and kind of stale (it was late afternoon though). So, home I went to bake my own. I found a recipe over on the recipe girl website that incorporates a swirl of Nutella, and I had some heath "bits o brickle" toffee chips lingering in my cupboard, so I threw those in too. I baked the bread in my mini loaf pan (inherited from my grandma), the bread came out perfect, except that I had never used the pan before and overfilled the loafs so they started creeping over the top of the pans, but no harm done, just a little uneven on top! Strong banana flavor, rich chocolate hazelnut swirl, and buttery crunchy toffee sprinkled throughout. Waaay better than Starbucks, and cheaper too! Nutella Toffee Banana Bread www.RecipeGirl.com 2 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. salt 1/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 cup granulated sugar 2 large eggs 1 1/2 cups mashed ripe banana 1/3 cup low fat yogurt (choose your flavor, I tried maple, it was good! But plain would be delish too) 1 tsp. vanilla extract 3/4 cup Nutella (chocolate-hazelnut spread) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray 8×4-inch loaf pan or 12 mini loaf pans with nonstick spray. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate large bowl, beat sugar and butter with an electric mixer at medium speed until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add banana, yogurt, toffee chips and vanilla; beat until blended. Add flour mixture; beat at low speed just until flour is incorporated (don’t over mix). Spoon Nutella into a medium dish and soften in the microwave for about 15 seconds. Add 1 cup of the banana bread batter to the Nutella and stir until blended well. Spoon Nutella batter alternately with plain banana bread batter into the prepared pan (or pans if you have mini ones). Swirl batters together with a knife. If using mini loaf pans, bake for 30-35 minutes, if using a regular size pan, bake 60 to 70 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Check the oven about three fourths of the way through cooking time to check the top of the bread for browning. If it’s browning too quickly, cover lightly with foil for the remainder of the baking (I had to do this). Cool for at least 15 minutes in the pan, and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. I wrapped the extras in parchment paper and tied with twine to give as presents. Rich chocolaty swirl... Hope you all have a beautiful Valentines Week! Linking up at Tasty Tuesdays, and Rook #17
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Using the new Reese Spreads and cream cheese, we've come up with our own unique version of the classic Monkey Bread that is sinfully delicious!
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