Showing posts with label fruit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fruit. Show all posts

Monday, January 11, 2010

Apple Crisp

-Heather Jordan

8 C sliced apples
1 t cinnamon
2/3 C sugar
4 T butter

Mix together and place in an ungreased 9x13 inch pan. Sprinkle topping on top.

Topping:
1 C oats
1 C flour
1 C brown sugar
1/2 C melted butter
1/4 t baking soda
1/4 t salt
1/8 t baking powder

Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Banana Nut Bread

-Heather Jordan

1/2 C oil
1 C sugar
2 eggs
1/4 C nuts (optional)
2 C flour
1 t baking soda
1 t salt
3 large bananas

Crush bananas first and let set. Cream oil, sugar, and eggs. Add flour, soda, salt and nuts. Then add bananas. Pour into large greased loaf pan. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

**You can double the recipe and make 2 loaves with the same amount of bananas.

Pumpkin Cranberry Bread

-Heather Jordan

3 C flour
1 T plus 2 t pumpkin pie spice
2 t baking soda
1 1/2 t salt
3 C sugar
1 can (15 oz) pumpkin
4 eggs
1 C vegetable oil
1/2 C orange juice or water
1 C sweetened dried, fresh or frozen cranberries

Grease and flour 2 9x5 inch loaf pans. Combine flour, pumpkin pie spice, soda and salt in large bowl. Combine sugar, pumpkin, eggs, oil and juice in large mixer bowl; beat just until blended. Add pumpkin mixture to flour mixture; stir just until moistened. Fold in cranberries. Spoon batter into loaf pans. Bake 60-65 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove from pans and cool completely.

Baked Plums

-Heather Jordan

6 plums
2 T honey
1/2 split vanilla bean
1 T sugar
1 T butter, melted
1 baking oven bag

Cut plums in half; remove pits. In a large bowl toss plums with honey to coat well. Transfer to oven bag. Add vanilla bean. Sprinkle plums with sugar. Drizzle with melted butter. Close bag; place on baking sheet. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour. (very ripe plums need less cooking time)

Serve with:
a spoonful of mascarpone cheese
toasted sliced almonds

Fresh Fruit Dip

-Heather Jordan

1 C pineapple juice
1 C sugar
4 T flour
2 eggs
2 T butter
2 t vanilla
1 C marshmallows
Cool Whip

Cook all ingredients except cool whip on low heat until thick. Add cool whip. Chill. Serve with any type of fruit.