Zucchini Bread

I got the recipe from a friend, and of course I tweaked it a bit when I made it. 

Bonnie's Zucchini bread
3 eggs
1 c oil
2 c sugar
2 c blended zucchini (peeled and seeded)
3 t vanilla
Beat eggs, oil, sugar, zucchini, and vanilla. When blending zucchini, you may add a little water if needed.
3 c flour
3 t cinnamon
1 t salt
1 t baking soda
1 t baking powder
Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients; mix well. Bake at 1 hour @325. Makes 2 5x8 pans. Freezes well.

Jana's Version of Bonnie's Zucchini Bread
3 eggs
1 c oil
1 1/2 c sugar
2 c blended zucchini (seeded, not peeled)
1 T. vanilla
Beat eggs, oil, sugar, zucchini, and vanilla. I used a food processor to blend up the zucchini, I didn't have to add any water.
2 c flour
1 c. whole wheat flour
1 T. cinnamon
1 t salt
1 t baking soda
1 t baking powder
Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients; mix well. Bake at 1 hour @325. Makes 2 5x8 pans. Freezes well.

 My little helper, what a goof

 1 good sized zucchini

 take out the seeds and the spongey area surrounding them

 cube up zucchini and put it in the trusty food processor

 scrape down sides and blend again

 measure out the 2 c you need 

* I made two batches, so I measured 4 c. here

 My helpers! Cook with your kids, they will love it!

 Add 3 eggs 

 Add 1 c. oil

 Add 1 T. vanilla

*Note: 3 t. vanilla is the same as 1 T. vanilla, 

so save yourself measuring 3 times and measure once!

 Add 1 1/2 c. sugar

* I cut out 1/2 c. sugar, it is still plenty sweet

 Mix

 Add 2 c. flour and 1 c. whole wheat flour

* I like to add a little whole wheat flour when I can,

It gives it more texture and added goodness

 Add 1 T. cinnamon, 1 t. salt, 1 t. baking powder and 1 t. baking soda

(what a silly girl!)

 Mix well

 Place in two 5x8 inch bread pans

TIP OF THE DAY: cut a piece of parchment paper to fit the bottom of the bread pan, lay it in the bottom, spray sides and bottom with cooking spray, add dough.  When you go to take the bread out of the pan, you will not have any problem with it sticking on the bottom, and the sides come loose with just a quick once around with a bread knife.

 Bake at 325 for about 1 hour

 The mess! 

And this doesn't even include all the food processor pieces.

 Baked up and ready to eat, YUM!

 It is so good and moist, it doesn't even need butter!

Master Muffin Mix

I found this recipe on Pinterest and ended up making some tweeks of my own to it.

One place I found it was
Home Joys: http://homejoys.blogspot.com/2010/01/master-muffin-mix.html
Another was
Super Healthy Kids: http://www.superhealthykids.com/mastermuffinmix.html

Original Master Muffin Mix
6 c. whole wheat flour
6 c. all purpose flour
2 c. sugar
4 T. baking powder
1 T. salt

Master Muffin Mix - sweeter
6 c. whole wheat flour
6 c. all purpose flour
4 c. sugar
4 T. baking powder
1 T. salt

I doubled the sugar from the original recipe.  If you want to have muffins that taste more like bread, stick with less sugar.  If you have a sweet-tooth like me, you probably want to go with more sugar, even with 4 cups, it is not overly sweet. 

Mix up all the dry ingredients with a whisk and store the mix for up to -- weeks.


Muffin Recipes:

Chocolate Chip Buttermilk - yum, yum, yum!
2 3/4 c. Master Muffin Mix
1/3 c. melted butter
1 egg, beaten
1 1/4 c. buttermilk
1 t. vanilla
3/4 c. Nestle mini chocolate chips
Mix until just blended, bake at 350 for 15-18 minutes.  Yields 18 muffins.
  

Oatmeal Scones - YUM!

Oatmeal Scones
3 c. Oatmeal
2 c. flour
1 c. sugar
1 t. salt
1 t. soda
1 c. sour cream
1 c. melted butter

Mix dry ingredients together, then add sour cream and butter.

There are a couple ways you can bake these. Both use a round baking stone and are baked at 420 degrees.

1st - Grease the stone and pat all the dough out on the stone in a large circle that is about 1 to 1 1/2 inches thick, cut the dough into 12 pie shaped pieces and seperate the sections by 1/2 inch. They will bake back together, but if you skip this step, you will have doughy scones. Bake for 20 minutes.

2nd - Grease two baking stones, use the large pampered chef scoop and scoop out 12 individual scones per stone, 9 around the outside circle and 3 in the center. Makes 2 dozen scones. Bake for 15 minutes.

Bran Muffins

Here is a great recipe for bran muffins that doesn't use bran cereal. All 'whole' ingredients, for those who want to stay away from processed foods!

Bran Muffins
1 c. bran
1/2 c. flour
1 c. whole wheat flour
1/2 c. wheat germ
1 1/4 c. buttermilk
1 1/4 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
1/2 c. sugar
1/4 c. applesauce
1 egg, beaten
1 1/2 T. oil
1 t. vanilla

Mix dry ingredients together, add remaining ingredients, mix well. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Makes 12 muffins.

Cherry Muffins

2 1/2 cups flour
(I used 1 c. whole wheat flour , 1/2 c. corn flour and 1 c. all-purpose flour; this got a little wild, I think they would have been better with just the whole wheat flour)
1/2 cup sugar
2 t. baking powder
1 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 cup sour cream
1 egg
1 t. vanilla
1 - 21 oz can of cherry pie filling

Mix dry ingredients together, add remaining ingredients and stir. I did not use a mixer, since this would break up the cherries. Fill muffin tins and top dough with coarse sugar.

Bake at 350 for 25 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Serve warm, with butter. Makes about 18 muffins.

Oatmeal Scones

Oatmeal Scones
3 c. oatmeal
2 c. flour
1 c. sugar
1 t. soda
1 t. salt
1 c. sour cream
1 c. butter, melted
Mix dry ingredients together, add sour cream and butter and stir until well blended. Place dough on well greased stone, pat down until about 1-1 1/2 in. thick, cut into pie shape pieces and separate pieces as shown in picture below. You can also just do spoonfuls of dough, like drop cookies, but bigger, instead of making the pie shaped pieces. Bake at 420 for 20 minutes or until slightly golden. In hindsight, I would make my scones thicker, they turned out ok, but a little thin.

Pull the pie shaped section out to the edge.

View from the top, sorry, no picture of the finished product; I took them in to work as a treat to celebrate passing my boards.