Banana Chocolate Chip Muffin Bars

Ingredients:

1 cup flour
0.75 tsp baking soda
0.25 tsp salt
1/2 cup chocolate chips
0.5 cup sugar
0.25 cup canola oil
0.25 cup water
2 very well mashed and very ripe banana’s
0.5 tsp vanilla

Method:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray an 8×8 pan with nonstick spray. Sift together the dry ingredients (except sugar) in a large bowl, stir in the chocolate chips. Combine the wet ingreidnts until mixed well, add them to the dry until the batter is just combined. Pour into the prepared pan and bake 20 to 30 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean and the top is lightly browned.

Pumpkin Oatmeal Bread

As we all know, I love pumpkin. So I decided to try making Pumpkin Oatmeal Bread…all my fav things (except chocolate) in one place. Oatmeal, Pumpkin, spices…yum. Maybe next time I’ll add chocolate chips.

1 can pumpkin

1/2 cup sugar

1/3 cup canola oil

1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour

1 cup quick oats

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp ginger

1/4 tsp allspice

1/2 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 375F and grease a loaf pan.

In a large bowl blend together the pumpkin, oil, and sugar together. In another bowl sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, spices, and salt. Stir in the oats, then mix in the pumpkin mixture, mixing until combined. Fill your loaf pan and bake for 45 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean.

Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls

I’m a huge fan of all things pumpkin….pie, oatmeal, scones, donuts, cupcakes, biscuits, bread, pumpkin seed crusted tofu…yeah, if it’s got pumpkin, I want it. So I made myself a DOUBLE batch of pumpkin cinnamon rolls. I did this so I could store a bunch in the freezer and bust them out anytime I craved some. Personally, a good idea I think. So I woke up and got cooking. Made the dough (recipe is for one batch…I managed to get about 16 out of a batch, but it depends on how big you make them):1 package active dry yeast (2 1/4 tsp)
1/4 cup warm water

mix together the above and let sit for about 5 minutes, until foamy

Then add to the yeast mixture the following:
3/4 cup pumpkin puree
1/4 rice milk (almond, soy, etc all work well too)
1/4 cup melted earth balance butter
1 tbsp canola oil
1 tbsp sugar
2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ginger

Mix together the above until a soft dough forms, then turn out on a flour surface and kneed in an additional 3/4 cups flour, until the dough is soft and smooth. Kneed dough for 5-10 minutes. Spray a bowl with cooking spray (or coat with a few tsp canola oil) and put the dough in the bowl, also spraying/coating the dough so it doesn’t stick. Cover and put someplace warm for 45-60 minutes, until it’s doubled in size.

Uncover dough and punch it down, let it rest for 10 minutes while you make the filling.

For the filling assemble to following:

3 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp flour
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
mix the above until combined, then roll out the dough until it’s about 12x18inches.

Sprinkle with the cinnamony goodness and then dot with earth balance butter (about 2-3 tbsp)
Roll this baby up tightly and cut into 1 inch pieces. I got 17 out of this one. Then get a pan and spray with cooking oil, place the pieces in the pan (if you make the entire roll you’ll need an 11×13 pan) and cover, put someplace warm and let rise (again) for about 35-35 minutes.
Bake at 350 for 45 minutes, until golden brown.

For the icing combined 3/4 cup sifted powder sugar with 1 tbsp hot water and a dash vanilla extract. Drizzle and enjoy.I only made 4 rolls and yes, I ate all 4 and yes, they were amazing.

Pumpkin Bread

I decided to make pumpkin bread…because I love all things pumpkin.

Recipe:

2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp all spice
1/4 tsp nutmeg
pinch clovessift above together in a large bowl

1-15oz can pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling, just plain old pumpkin)
1/2 cup maple agave (or maple syrup)
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 tbsp dark molasses
1 tbsp canola oil

add all the above to the dry. Stir to combined. I added in 1 cup chopped walnuts too, you’ll just stir these in at the end. Grease up a loaf pan, fill it up, and Bake at 350 for 60 minutes (or until a toothpick comes out clean)

Banana Chocolate Chip Bread

Like many of us out there I end up not eating all my banana’s before they turn brown and, well, old. So I made some banana bread to use them up…then I decided to add chocolate chips to them too…because that’s just yummy.

2 very ripe banana’s, mashed well
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
3 tbsp canola oil
1/2 cup sugar
2 tbsp brown rice syrup
2 cups flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup vegan semi-sweet chocolate chipsPreheat oven to 350 degrees, spray a bread pan with nonstick spray. Mash banana’s, mix in the applesauce, canola oil, sugar, and brown rice syrup until combined. Sift in flour, baking soda, salt cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir until just combined and then stir in chocolate chips. Fill the prepared pan and bake for 45-60minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Serve and enjoy!