Banana Bread with Chocolate Swirls!

Banana Bread with Chocolate Swirls
Ingredients:
1 c margarine or butter
2 c sugar
4 eggs
2 c mashed bananas (about 5)
1/2 c milk
2 tsp lemon juice
4 c all purpose flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c nuts, chopped (optional, this is in my Mom's recipe, but I never put the nuts)
1/2 c chocolate chips (optional)

Directions:
Beforehand: Let butter/margarine soften. If your bananas are frozen, pull them out of the freezer.

1. Cream margarine and sugar
2. Add eggs and mix well
3. Add bananas, milk, and lemon juice. Mix well
4. Add in dry ingredients. mix

without chocolate swirls: pour in 2 large loaf pans or 3 medium loaf pans and bake at 350 for 1 hour.

with chocolate swirls:
-melt your 1/2 cup of chocolate chips
-once melted, mix 1 c of the banana bread butter in with the chocolate chips.

I made 3 medium loafs. I left one plain banana and did the swirls to 2 loafs. I liked the banana to chocolate ratio, but you can do it however you want.

First, put a layer of the banana batter down. Next, put a layer of the chocolate batter. Using a knife, swirl it around to create a marbled look. To do this, you'll want to bring the knife up and down while you're swirling. REPEAT as many times as you want. NOTE: you need to end with the BANANA batter on top. The chocolate burns. Make sure it is well covered.

Monkey bread

I love to make this for breakfast and made it for Callie's school for a parents meeting. I forgot how good it is. Excuse the picture, it fell apart because I was trying to hurry and didn't let it completely cool.

Monkey Bread

2 Cans refridgerated biscuits (Pillsbury is what I used)
1 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 stick butter, melted

Cut each biscuit into 4 pieces. Mix sugar and cinnamon together and put into ziploc plastic bag. Put biscuit pieces into bag and shake until all are coated. Dump mixutre into a greased bundt pan and pour melted butter over the whole thing. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes. Let cool and pour onto plate or eat it out of the bundt pan.

Corn bread

I love chili and cornbread together but I have done away with my old cornbread recipe. My friend makes this recipe called Cornbread cake and it is so moist and so good. I made it for our Ward Halloween trunk or treat party on Tuesday night.

Cornbread Cake

2 cups bisquick mix
3 tbs. cornmeal
3/4 melted butter
1 cup milk
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. baking soda

Mix all the wet together and add the dry ingredients. Pour batter into 9x13 pan and bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Cut up into squares.