Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins

This is a recipe I got from my friend Jill, who got it from Emily, who got it from.... get the idea!  I  am not sure if anyone knows this recipe's origin anymore!  But we like it a lot!  

1/2 c butter softened
1 c sugar
2 eggs
1/2 c peanut butter
1 cup mashed banana
2 c flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 c choc chips

Mix butter, eggs, peanut butter.  Add in sugar and mix well.  Stir in banana and add dry ingredients.  Mix well.  I suggest baking into muffins.  Grease or line muffin tins with wrappers.  Bake at 325 until done.

I baked it as a loaf and it took about 1 hour!  So, I am not sure on the muffin times, but probably around 20 min or so depending on your oven.  Just test the center and adjust time as needed.

Enjoy!

Banana Boats

Submitted by: Hannah

On Monday nights in our house we have family night and we always make some sort of treat. I found this recipe in a church cookbook and since it only has 3 ingredients I thought it was a perfect dessert for my son to help with. I picked this because I thought he would love it, and he did, but I loved it too. It is simple and delicous and it takes under 10 minutes to make. Now, that is my kind of treat!

Ingredients:

bananas (they don't have to be to ripe but not green)

mini marshmallows

chocolate chips

Directions:

Leaving the banana peel on cut down the banana lengthwise but don't go through the other side. Open the cut you just made so there is room to stuff the goodies. Take a piece of tin foil that is big enough to cover your banana. Put your banana on the tin foil and put as much of the mini marshmallows and chocolate chips that you like or that you can fit inside the opening you made. When finished filling it, leave the banana standing up and bring the tinfoil up around it and make sure it is enclosed. You will bake these bananas at 400 degrees for about 8-9 minutes. You can either eat these right out of the peel or carefully remove them from the peel and put them on a plate. Yum!!

*This is also a great campfire snack, you would make them the same way but your cooking time may not be as long.

Source: Barbara Smith

Banana Bars

Submitted by : Lisa

I just love this recipe. It isn't like banana bread. It is light and delicious and very versatile. It suggests putting it into a jelly roll pan 10x15 size. I have never done that. I have put it into a 9x13 pan, an 8 inch spring form pan and put it on a pedestal, and now I am making them into cupcakes.

The kids love them, but more importantly the adults love them. I got this recipe from a co-worker and truthfully I don't know where she got it from.

Ingredients:

1/2 c butter, softened

1 1/4 c sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup mashed bananas (top off with applesauce if you don't have enough banana)

1 8 oz carton sour cream

2 c flour

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

Grease and lightly flour 10x15 inch jelly roll pan. Preheat oven to 375. Cream butter and sugar; blend in eggs, vanilla, bananas and sour cream.

Combine the dry ingredients; stir into the creamed mixture just until blended.

Spread in prepared pan.

Bake until bars test done with a wooden pick, about 25 minutes. Cool

Spread with cream cheese frosting....recipe follows

Cream Cheese Frosting:

1 3 oz package cream cheese, softened

3 tbsp soft butter

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1 tbsp milk

1 tsp vanilla

Beat until smooth. I like to serve it chilled, but it doesn't need to be.