Applesauce Sweet Bread

                  3 cups flour
                  1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
                  1 teaspoon salt
                  1 cup butter, softened
                  1 1/2 cup sugar
                  3 eggs
                  1/4 cup evaporated milk
                  1 teaspoon vanilla
                  1 1/2 cup applesauce
                  1 tablespoon cinnamon-sugar


                  Preheat oven to 325 degrees, grease 2 loaf pans.

                  Combine flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside

                  In a mixer beat butter at high speed for
                  30 seconds, add sugar and and beat until well
                  combined. Beat in eggs, milk, vanilla and applesauce.
                  Add half of flour mixture beat until combined, add
                  remaining flour beat to combine. Divide dough
                  between prepared pans; sprinkle the top with
                  cinnamon-sugar.

                  Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean.
                  Cool in pan for 10 minutes.  Remove from pan to a
                  cooling rack and cool completely.

               

Bake-a-Donut Pan Donuts

2 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 cup milk
2 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon shortening, melted
For Glaze
1/4 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons hot water


In a bowl mix the 1st six ingredients. Add the next 4 ingredients and beat until well blended. Lightly spray donut pan with non-stick spray, fill donut cavity 2/3 full. Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched. Cool. Mix powdered sugar and water until well blended, dip donuts in glaze or cinnamon sugar.

Banana Bread

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 egg
3 banana, ripe and mashed
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Grease bottom of a loaf pan. Cream sugars and butter until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Blend in bananas, milk and vanilla. In a small bowl combine dry ingredients mix well, add to creamed mixture. Stir just until moist. Bake 325 degrees for 55-60 minutes. Cool on wire rack.

Bread Machine Cinnamon Rolls

--Dough--
1 cup plus 2 tablespoon warm milk
3 tablespoons canola oil
1 egg plus 2 egg whites, lightly beaten
1/2 cup sugar
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons bread machine yeast
-- filling --
4 tablespoons butter, melted
1 1/3 cups brown sugar
2 tablespoons cinnamon
--icing--
1 teaspoon milk
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
4 tablespoons butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla


Put the dough ingredients in bread machine
in the order listed and run on dough cycle.
After the cycle is done roll out the dough into
a large rectangle. Spread the dough with the
melted butter. Combine brown sugar and
cinnamon and sprinkle over butter. Roll up
dough and cut into 12-15 rolls. Place rolls into
2 greased cake pans; allow to rise until doubled
in size. Bake at 325 degrees for 20 minutes or
until browned. While rolls are baking combine
icing ingredients. As soon as rolls are out of the
oven spread on icing.

For fruit rolls, instead of butter, brown sugar and
cinnamon; spread dough rectangle with fruit jam
and some fruit pieces. Roll, cut and bake as before.

Brown Sugar Sweet Bread

2 cups brown sugar, packed

2 tablespoons molasses 
4 cups flour

2 tablespoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

2 cups milk

2/3 cup vegetable oil

2 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 6 mini loaf pans.

Combine the first 5 ingredients, make sure brown sugar is broken up.

In another bowl combine eggs, milk, oil and vanilla, mix well.

Add wet ingredients to the dry mix together well. Fill the loaf pans and

bake for 40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins

           1 2/3 cup flour
           1 cup sugar
           1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
           1/2 teaspoon salt
           1/2 cup cocoa powder
           1/2 cup very hot water
           1/2 cup vegetable oil
           1 cup sour cream
           2 eggs, lightly beaten
           1 teaspoon vanilla
           2 cups chocolate chips

           Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
           In a large mixing bowl whisk flour, sugar, soda
           and salt. In a medium bowl add cocoa powder
           and hot water, whisk until smooth. Add oil, sour
           cream, eggs and vanilla to chocolate mixture, mix
           well. Pour wet bowl into dry bowl, mix well with
           a spatula. Fold in chocolate chips. Fill muffin tin 
           2/3 full. Bake for 17-18 minutes. Allow muffins
           to cool for 15 minutes in pan before moving to a
           cooling rack.

Chocolate Croissants

12 croissants, unsliced
2 cups milk chocolate chips
1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup milk
4 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup half and half
3 teaspoons vanilla extract


Cut a slit in the side of each croissant and fill with 2 teaspoons of chocolate chips. IN a bowl combine the sugar, cornstarch and cinnamon; add milk and whisk until smooth. Whisk in eggs, cream and vanilla. Dip each croissant into egg mixture and then place on a greased baking sheet. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 7-9 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 minutes before serving.

 

Disappearing Cinnamon Rolls

1 tube crescent rolls
8 large marshmallows
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons butter


Preheat open to 375 degrees. Combine sugar and cinnamon in small bowl. Separate crescent rolls into 8 triangles. Dip each marshmallows into the melted butter and roll in cinnamon sugar. Place marshmallow into crescent roll, wrap dough completely covering marshmallow. Seal the seams. Dip the tops of the dough into the butter then into the cinnamon sugar. Place in a greased muffin pan sugar side up. Bake for 13 - 15 minutes. Inside will be very hot, allow to cool for 10 minutes.

Homemade Cake Doughnuts

2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup potato, mashed
3 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons baking powder
4 cups flour


In a large bowl combine egg and sugar until well combined. Add potato, butter and mix well. Add milk and extracts, mix well. Sift into the wet ingredients the salt, powder and flour, stir until completely combined. Refrigerate for at least 60 minutes.

Heat 3 inches of oil in a large pan to 370 degrees.Roll out dough to 1/4 to 1/3 thick; cut with doughnut cutter. Let rest 5 minutes. Fry in oil until golden brown on each side.

*To make chocolate doughnuts substitute 1/2 cup of flour with 1/2 cup sifted cocoa powder.

** For chocolate glaze combine 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 4 tablespoons cocoa powder, 3 tablespoons milk and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract.

Homemade Raised Doughnuts

1 1/8 cups whole milk
1/4 cup sugar
2 1/4 teaspoons yeast
10 tablespoons butter, melted
2 each eggs, beaten
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 cups flour


Heat milk to 110 degrees; add sugar and yeast; mix slightly and set aside for 5-8 minutes. Cool melted butter and add eggs. Combine milk and butter mixtures in a mixing bowl with a dough hook attached. Combine flour and salt; add to mixer 1/2 cup at a time. Allow mixer to knead dough for 10 minutes. Place dough in a lightly oiled bowl cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. Put dough on a lightly floured surface and roll out to 1/4 inch. Cut dough into desired forms; cover and put into a turn off oven for 30-45 minutes. Cook in 380 degree oil until browned on both sides.

Ice Cream Bread

          2 cups ice cream; melted; any flavor
          1 1/2 cup flour
          2 teaspoon baking powder
          3/4 teaspoon salt
          1/2 cup add-ins (chips, sprinkles, cookie crumbs, etc.) - optional

          Preheat oven to 350°. Grease a bread pan.
          In a large bowl stir all the ingredients until combined.
          Put into prepared pan, bake for 45 minutes.

(this loaf was made with Orange Cream and white chocolate chips)

Maple Cream Sticky Buns

           1 cups brown sugar, packed
           1/2 cup finely chopped nuts (optional)
           1/3 cup maple syrup
           1/4 cup butter, melted
           8 ounces cream cheese, softened
           1/4 cup powdered sugar
           2 tablespoons butter, softened
           1/2 cup coconut (optional)
           2 cans refrigerated flaky biscuits (total of 20 biscuits)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a bowl combine combine the first 4 ingredients; mix well.
Spread mixture in the bottom of a ungreased 9x13 pan. In
another bowl blend the next 4 ingredients, set aside. Separate
biscuits and flatten to a 4 inch circle. Add about 1 tablespoon
of the cream cheese mixture down the middle of a biscuit, 
overlap the sides of the biscuit over the filling. Place the buns,
seam side down in prepared pan, 2 rows of 10.  Bake for 25-30
minutes until golden brown. Cool for 3-5 minutes then invert
onto a wax paper covered pan.

Melt in your Mouth Cinnamon Rolls

1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
2 tablespoon corn syrup
1 tube crescent rolls
2 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 

Combine brown sugar, butter, milk and corn syrup, heat over medium heat until combined. Spread mixture in a greased round cake pan. Unroll tube of rolls into a large rectangle. Seal seams. Combine sugar and cinnamon, sprinkle over dough. Roll up jelly roll style starting with the long end. Cut into 16 slices. Place in prepared pan and bake for 13-17 minutes at 375 degrees. Let stand for 1 minute invert unto serving plate.

Monkey Bread

1 stick butter
1 cup brown sugar
40 each Pillsbury refrigerator biscuit, quartered
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons cinnamon


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a small sauce pan combine brown sugar and butter, bring to a boil over medium heat until boiling; cool 10 minutes. In a large bag combine cinnamon and sugar. Add 10-15 pieces of dough at a time into cinnamon sugar mixture, coat each piece well. Drop coated dough pieces into a well greased Bundt pan, do not push down. After all the coated dough pieces are in the pan, pour the cooled butter brown sugar over the rolls. Bake for 45 minutes; cool 15 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate.

Peanut Butter Bread (depression era)

            2 cups flour
            1/4 cup sugar
            4 teaspoon baking powder

            1/2 teaspoon salt
            1 1/3 cup milk
            1/2 cup peanut butter

             Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
             In a bowl combine flour, sugar, powder and salt.
             Add milk and peanut butter to flour and mix just

             until combined. Put in greased loaf pan,

             bake for 50-60 minutes.

S'more Muffins

1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup oil
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 1/4 cups miniature marshmallows


In a large bowl combine the dry ingredients. Combine egg, buttermilk and oil; mix well. Stir into dry ingredients just until moist. Fold in chips and 1 cup marshmallows. Fill greased muffin cups 3/4 full. Sprinkle with remaining marshmallows. Bake at 375 for 18-20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing, serve warm.

Streusel Coffee Cake

1 3/4 cups flour, divided
1/2 cup cake flour
1 cup brown sugar, divided
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup sour cream


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl combine
1 1/2 cups flour, 1/2 cup cake flour, 1/2 cup brown
sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda; mix well.
To make the streusel remove 1/4 cup of mixture and
add 1/4 cup flour, 1/2 cup brown sugar and cinnamon;
add melted butter mix well, set aside. In a mixing bowl
cream 3 tablespoon butter and sugar for 5-6 minutes.
Add eggs 1 at a time mixing well after each. Add vanilla,
1/3 of the dry mixture and 1/3 of the sour cream; mix
well; repeat dry mixture and sour cream 2 more times.
Grease and flour a spring form pan. Pour 1/2 of the batter
into the pan and top with half of the streusel; repeat.
Bake for 35-40 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.

Worlds Easiest Carmel Rolls

1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)
18 each frozen dinner rolls
1 small butterscotch pudding mix, not instant
6 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon


Grease a 9x13 pan. Place frozen rolls loosely on pecans. Sprinkle with pudding. Melt butter, add brown sugar and cinnamon. Pour over rolls and let rise (covered) overnight. Bake next morning at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Invert on to serving plate.