Nutella Pecan filled Banana Muffins

Ohhh here’s another case of just can’t leave well enough alone! Yes, banana muffins are good. But, fill them with some nutella, pecans and sea salt and they are even better. I even got I think I’m in love out of my 15 year old over these!! Sooo  if you would like your kids to be in love with a muffin rather then well you get the meaning… Feed them these bad boys

Simple banana muffin recipe. Makes 12 average size muffins. Line the pans and turn the oven to 350.

Mash 3 bananas

3/4 c Sugar

1 egg

1/3 cup melted butter

1 1/2 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp sea salt

1 small jar nutella

1/2 chopped pecans

Sift flour, baking soda. set aside

melt butter, add bananas, sugar, egg.

Fold flour mix into banana mix

Fill the bottom about 1/4 c mix of the muffin cups. Carefully add about 1 tbs of nutella on the top of batter, spread out with a spoon. This can be tricky not to mix into batter. Sprinkle pecans over top of nutella, Sprinkle sea salt on pecans. Top with about 1/4 c batter. Bake at 350 for about 25-30, Done when they spring bake. For extra decadence top with drizzle of caramel sauce!!

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Oreo Swirly Chocolate Bundt Cake!

Oreos and Chocolate Cake. Oh YES! This is a very simple but elegant cake. I used a small silicone bundt. The recipe can be used for a single layer cake or even a spring form. Heres the list of ingredients!

1 can sweetened condensed milk

4 eggs

1 cup flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 cup cocoa

4 Tbs Butter melted

1 sleeve or about 12 oreos

2 Tbs powdered sugar

Grease and flour pan. Preheat oven to 350. In mixer bowl add sweetened milk, eggs, flour, baking powder, and melted butter. Mix well on low speed, stir in 8 crumbled oreos. Pour into pan and bake for 40 mins. 

Let cook for 10 mins, remove from pan on to cooling rack. After cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar, fine chop remaining oreos sprinkle on top, melt 2 squares semi sweet chocolate, drizzle on top.

ENJOY!!!!

Atomic Cake!!!!

Anyone and everyone who grew up on the South Side of Chicago will remember THE ATOMIC CAKE!!! I am sad the Village Bakery is no longer I am happy I have this amazing recipe to share. I think it is pretty close to the original we use to devour on every Birthday, we could talk Mom into popping for this beaut!!! ENJOY!!!

Ingredients
1 layer banana or yellow cake
1 layer chocolate cake
1 layer white cake
Fresh bananas, sliced
1 small box Jell-O banana Pudding
fresh strawberries, sliced
Grated chocolate
1 small box Jell-O chocolate pudding
1 small box Jell-O vanilla Pudding
whipped cream
How to make it
Set the banana (or yellow) cake layer on a cake plate.
Top with sliced bananas, then spread banana pudding over the top to hold the bananas together.
Spread whipped cream over pudding.
Place the chocolate cake layer on top.
Sprinkle with grated chocolate.
Top with sliced strawberries, then spread chocolate pudding over the top.
Spread with whipped cream.
Place the white cake layer on top.
Spread with vanilla pudding.
Frost top of cake with a generous amount of whipped cream.
Refrigerate

Bacon Steak Pinwheels!!

Whats better then steak??? BACON! What’s better then bacon??? Bacon wrapped in steak!! Oh my !! We love to buy a whole round of beef and do with it what we want. Love the fresh ground beef we get Can make it virtually fat free! So in our 30 lbs of beef we managed to slice up some very thin sandwich steaks. So thats where it started. Take very thinly sliced steaks lay bacon op top roll them up. I did several variations. Added some fresh veggies in there.. Cauliflower, carrots, broccoli. Extra bacon, Wrapped in bacon!!! Side this with some potato nachos and good to go!!!

Reeses PB Cake Piano style!!

Happy 15th Birthday to my rockin son!!!! His love of PB mainly Reeses inspired this cake for his birthday!! Here goes, I used a vintage Wilton piano shaped set of cake pans. round would work just fine My daughter even helped with the making of the keys

Cake:
2 1/4 cups  flour 
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups sugar 
About 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup Reeses creamy peanut butter 
2 large eggs 
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2/3 cup milk

Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 350°. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a medium bowl; set aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat sugar, 1/2 cup butter, and peanut butter until creamy. Crack eggs into a small dish (do not beat) and add vanilla. Add eggs to the butter mixture 1 at a time, scraping down the inside of the bowl as needed. Beat in flour mixture and milk in alternating batches, starting and ending with the flour and making sure each addition is fully incorporated before adding the next.
2. Butter and flour 2 round 9-in. cake pans. Divide batter evenly between pans.
3. Bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center of each cake comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.
4. Cool cakes 5 minutes. Invert onto a rack, remove pans, and let cool to room temperature, at least 40 minutes.

Peanut butter filling:
3/4 cup creamy Reeses peanut butter 
8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature 
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup  heavy cream

Make filling: In a medium bowl with an electric mixer, beat together peanut butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, and cream until smooth and fluffy.

Spread filling in between layers.

Frosting

5 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
8 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
About 3 cups powdered sugar, sifted
6 tablespoons milk 
Preparation
Micro chocolate about 2 mins. Let cool to room temperature, about 10 minutes. Add butter and beat on high speed with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add 3 cups powdered sugar and the milk; beat until smooth. Add more powdered sugar if frosting seems too thin

Special Occasion Coconut Cake

Now the majority of the time around here, if I am baking it has to have some form of chocolate in it! It has always been that way, and I’m quite sure it will always remain that way!! I do however like to go out of my comfort zone on occasion. Here we have what I would consider a “SPECIAL OCCASION” cake. Besides that fact it’s not chocolate , it is just loaded with 5 yes 5 sticks of butter, and well you shall see the rest very soon!!!

At hubbys request I whipped this up for the special occasion of him wanting it

Here goes, we all know it’s bests to keep hubbys happy

Ingredients

 3/4 pound (3 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature, 
2 cups sugar
5 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting the pans
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup milk
4 ounces sweetened shredded coconut

For the frosting:

1 pound cream cheese, at room temperature
1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
3/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 pound confectioners’ sugar, sifted
6 ounces sweetened shredded coconut

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 2 (9-inch) round cake pans, then line them parchment paper. Grease them again and dust lightly with flour. ( I sprayed them)
 In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar on medium-high speed for 3 to 5 minutes, until light yellow and fluffy. Crack the eggs into a small bowl. With the mixer on medium speed, add the eggs 1 at a time, scraping down the bowl once during mixing. Add the vanilla  and mix well. The mixture might look curdled; don’t be concerned.
In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. With the mixer on low speed, alternately add the dry ingredients and the milk to the batter in 3 parts, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Mix until just combined. Fold in the 4 ounces of coconut with a rubber spatula.
Pour the batter evenly into the 2 pans and smooth the top with a knife. Bake in the center of the oven for 45 to 55 minutes, until the tops are browned and a cake tester comes out clean. Cool on a baking rack for 30 minutes, then turn the cakes out onto a baking rack to finish cooling.
 For the frosting, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, combine the cream cheese, butter, vanilla on low speed. Add the confectioners’ sugar and mix until just smooth (don’t whip!).
To assemble, place 1 layer on a flat serving plate, top side down, and spread with frosting. Place the second layer on top, top side up, and frost the top and sides. To decorate the cake, sprinkle the top with coconut and lightly press more coconut onto the sides. Serve at room temperature.

Slightly adapted from FOODNETWORK.COM

 

Bacon Pork Roast

What’s better then pork??? Pork wrapped in pork!!! Haha Love this pork roast, it is so juicy and flavorful! Simple 

1 PORK ROAST 

8 SLICES BACON

LAWRYS SEASONING

Basket weave 8 slices of bacon 4 x 4 in out you know. I do these on a large piece of parchment, foil, ziploc whatever you have handy. Sprinkle seasoing on roast , Carefully flip the woven bacon on top or roast.Bake 425 for about 2 hours, or until tender and bacon is crisp!!