Banana Cake Recipe

Every family needs a great banana cake recipe, a delicious homemade cake that can be rustled up in no time at all, filling the house with that lovely banana aroma as it bakes.

This banana cake recipe is very simple, and is a great way to make use of those odd bananas that tend to languish in the fruit bowl. Once the skins go brown and spotty, they're just perfect for a recipe like this. Ripe bananas have much more flavor, and their soft texture means they blend into the cake mixture easily.

If you have a lot of ripe bananas you could make two banana cakes and freeze one. Another alternative is to freeze some of your ripe bananas. Just pop them, unpeeled, into a freezer bag and keep them frozen until needed. The skins will turn black, but that's simply a reaction to the cold temperature. Your bananas are still fine to use, and you can mash them straight from the freezer, or leave them to thaw first.

If you want to make a banana cake but your bananas aren't fully ripe, there's a cure - peel the bananas and put them in the microwave for a few seconds to soften them. Then use them in the banana cake recipe that follows:

Banana Cake Recipe

Ingredients

225g (8 oz, 2 cups) self-raising (self-rising) flour

100g (4 oz, 1/2 cup) soft margarine or softened butter

175g (6 oz, 3/4 cup) caster (superfine granulated) sugar

2 beaten eggs

3 bananas, peeled

175g (6 oz, 1 cup) dried fruit (use sultanas, raisins, currants, chopped glace cherries, candied peel or a mixture)

Makes a 2lb (900g) cake

Method

Pre-heat the oven to gas 4/180C/350F. Oil and base line a 2lb (900g) loaf pan.

Put all the ingredients except the dried fruit into a food processor and blend until well mixed.

Take the food processor bowl from the base machine, remove the processing blade and stir the dried fruit into the mixture.

Spoon the cake mix into the pan and bake for around 1 hr 20 minutes, or until a fine knife blade inserted into the cake comes out clean. Check the cake after 1 hr 10 minutes and if neccessary cover with a piece of foil to prevent the top from burning.

Leave until cool, then turn out of the tin.

This banana cake keeps well in an airtight tin for 2-3 days, or refrigerate it for up to 7 days.

For a banana nut cake, substitute chopped walnuts for some or all of the dried fruit, and scatter some over the top of the cake before baking.

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Apple-Apricot Fruit Cake Passover Dessert Recipe

Ingredients for the Apple Layer:

6 medium apples sliced very thin, a mandolin or food processor may be used.
¼ Cup of dried apricots, chopped
1/4 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
Mix all in a bowl, and set aside

Ingredients for the Cake batter:

3 medium or large Eggs, you will need to separate the yolks from the white and hold the whites until you are ready to whip, this is done to give the cake lift.
3/4 cup Matzo Cake Meal
3/4 cup Sugar
1/3 cup Oil
2 teaspoons Vanilla
2 teaspoons Lemon zest, fine
1/8 teaspoon of salt

Ingredients for the topping of the Cake:

1/3 cup of Walnuts, finely chopped
2 teaspoons Cinnamon
1/2 Cup of Sugar

You will toss the sliced apples in with sugar and cinnamon. You will then set apples and apricots aside. In another bowl you will combine egg yolks, sugar, vanilla, lemon zest, matzo meal and oil. You will blend all of these ingredients until smooth.

In a separate bowl you will whip the egg whites with 1/8 teaspoon of salt until stiff peaks form and a glossy sheen is seen. You will begin to add or gently fold 1/3 of the egg whites to the batter. Make sure you do this very gently if you want to get the maximum lift, you do not want the cake to be too dense. You will do this 3 times, until all egg whites are combined into the batter.

You will now take half of the batter and put it into a greased 9 inch spring form pan. You will add the apple, apricot, sugar and cinnamon mixture on top of the first layer of batter. Now you will cover the fruit mixture with the remaining batter. The batter will be thick and sticky so do the best you can to get it evenly spread. For the last step you will add the topping ingredients and sprinkle over cake batter. You will add to a preheated oven of 350 degrees and cook approximately 45 minutes to an hour depending on your oven. Remove and let cool. Serve.

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Fruit Buns recipe

Preparation time: 50 min. + 45 min resting time | Serves 16-20 buns

This fruit buns formula is prepared with blueberries hence can also be named as blueberry buns. You can also add some other dried fruits and nuts to make this bun more flavorful. To make jelly bun from this fruit buns formula for that you will have to add layer of fruit jam in the town of bun after cutting it from center. Serve these fruit buns with tea or soup.

Dried Fruit

Ingredients:

1 cup milk (lukewarm)
1 large egg
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp salt
4 tbsp butter (softened)
3 tsp instant yeast
3-4 oz dried blueberries
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tbsp water
1 egg yolk (beaten)

For Icing:

1 1/2 cup icing sugar
1 tbsp butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp milk

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a mixing bowl, whisk together milk, egg and vanilla until become uniform mixture.
3. Now add milk mixture, flour, sugar, salt, butter, and yeast in the bread machine bowl agreeing to the instructions of your machine.
4. Start the machine accordingly and then add blueberries and cinnamon at the beep.
5. If you feel that the dough is sticky then add very tiny number of flour and water to make soft level dough.
6. Punch the dough onto the floured outside and make balls of 2-3 inch size.
7. Take a greased baking dish and place these balls by holding 2 inch apart from each other. Cover the balls and let them rise for 45-60 min.
8. Now brush the top of each prepared ball with egg yolk. Place the baking dish in preheated oven for 25 min until become golden brown from top.
9. Meanwhile get ready icing for bun for that you need to beat all the ingredients mentioned for the icing so that a thick frosting is formed.
10. When the fruit buns are cooled to room climatic characteristic brush these buns with prepared frosting and leave as it is until frosting sets.

Fruit Buns recipe

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How to Make a wholesome Fruit Salad - Free Raw recipe

If you're wondering how to make a wholesome fruit salad and something that is quick and easy, this raw food formula is so uncomplicated it'll only take minutes to prepare. You can make it just prior to serving or make in develop and refrigerate.

There are many fruit salad recipes but not all of them are healthy. This raw fruit salad formula is wholesome and contains only fruits. It's versatile. If you leave something out it won't make a difference. You can add other fruits to it or substitute other fruits. It's one of my beloved wholesome raw food recipes. All the kids and adults love it and ooh and ahh over it.

Dried Fruit

If possible, it's best to serve it first before the meal and enjoy the fast digestive benefits. Fruits ordinarily dispell within 15 minutes and dispell great when not combined with fats and proteins. This saves the body's power for other digestive processes and other work. Also, more is likely to be eaten before the meal rather than after when everyone is full. Or just serve it with the meal and let everyone help themselves.

Here's how to make a wholesome fruit salad recipe:

Choose the fruits you like. You can leave any of these out, except one orange for mixing and bananas, but you may sell out the whole of bananas. The ingredients are:

1 cup of seedless grapes, cut in half

1 orange peeled and sliced in thin slices

1 orange - maintain for top

1-2 oranges for mixing

1 sweet apple like a Gala or tart apple if you like, cubed. Actually, any type of apple you have on hand is good.

1 pear cored, peeled and cubed

5-6 ripe, not green, bananas, sliced

1 handful to 1 cup of blueberries, fresh or frozen

1/2 cup fresh or icy mango chunks

1/2 cup dried fruit, any composition chopped - figs, dates, raisins and/or cranberries, optional

1-2 cups strawberries, sliced, maintain 5-6 whole strawberries for top

1-2 kiwifruit, sliced thin, maintain for top, optional

Slice the bananas into a big bowl. Add any of the other fruits you like. Gently and thought about fold them in, being just not to bruise the fruit. Squeeze one orange, Gently add to the fruit and Gently mix in. You may need two oranges if you have a lot of fruit. Lay some thin kiwi and strawberry slices nearby the edges, alternating or use your creativity. Refrigerate and serve chilled.

That's it. It's positively uncomplicated and so sweet and healthy. Nothing cooked. No gluten and no dairy either. That's how to make a wholesome fruit salad - a great raw food formula you'll love to serve often

How to Make a wholesome Fruit Salad - Free Raw recipe

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Quick and Easy Recipe Ideas Using Cream Cheese

If you're a cream cheese lover then you'll want to know how to incorporate it into every meal and snack of the day. Here's a few ideas to try out:

Breakfast

Dried Fruit

Spread fruit toast with light cream cheese; top with fruit.

Spread 2 slices of bread with light cream cheese spread. Top one bread with 1/2 banana, sliced and the other bread with raisins. Close together to make a breakfast sandwich you'll remember.

Cut apple into slices; remove and discard core. Spread with light cream cheese; sprinkle liberally with your favourite cereal, chopped nuts, or raisins. Yum!

Appetisers

For quick and easy appetizer nibblers, spread cream cheese on flour tortillas. Top with desired sliced deli or cooked meats and vegetables; roll tightly. Slice on the diagonal.

Spread creamcheese on water crackers, toasted pumpernickel or dark rye rounds. Sprinkle with chopped dill or chives; top with smoked salmon. Works a treat!

Try mixing together 1/2 cup cream cheese with 1 grated carrot and 1/4 cup dried cranberries - or maybe give some dried fruit a try? Fill stalks of celery with mixture; cut into bite-size pieces.

Dips

Tuna and Salsa Dip:
Combine 1 pkg (250g) cream cheese with 1/2 cup tuna, or perhaps some prawns, 1/4 cup salsa, and 2 Tbsp. chopped coriander. Serve with crackers, doubt you'll regret it.

Tuscan Dip:
Blend 1 pkg (250g) cream cheese, softened, with 2 Tbsp. sour cream. Add 1/2 cup finely chopped oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, drained, 1/2 cup chopped black pitted olives, and 1/4 cup finely chopped red onions. Glass of Chianti optional.

Dill Sauce/Dip:
Ready? Place 1 sliced green onion, 1 garlic clove, and 1 Tbsp. fresh dill in food processor; process until finely chopped. Add 1 pkg. (250 g) cream cheese, 3 Tbsp. lemon juice, 1 Tbsp. olive oil, and a pinch of salt; process until smooth. Spoon over grilled vegetables, or place in a bowl for dipping. Hey presto, you're a domestic goddess (or god, as the case may be!)

Snacks/Sandwiches

Fruit and Nut Bites:
Try topping crackers with cream cheese and jam (strawberry's good!); sprinkle with a few toasted sliced almonds. Works for me!

Croque Monsieur (AKA Fancy Toasted Sandwich):
Spread 1 Tbsp. of cream cheese on a toasted thick slice of crusty bread. Top with sliced ham and shredded cheese; grill until cheese (or partner's heart) is melted.

Party Cheese Ball:
Blend 1-1/2 cups shredded cheddarcheese with 1/2 cup cream cheese, softened. If you like, add 1 Tbsp. port wine. Wrap in a sheet of plastic wrap and shape into a ball. Refrigerate about an hour or so before unwrapping. Roll in paprika or very finely chopped toasted nuts. How's that for a block party? Sorry, couldn't resist.

Try this: spread flour tortilla with cream cheese. Sprinkle with grated carrot and a few raisins. Roll up tightly, cut in half, and devour!

Quick and Easy Recipe Ideas Using Cream Cheese

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Favorite Homemade Granola Bars Recipe

Chewy, wholesome, not too sweet homemade granola bars are a perfect lunch bag treat or after school snack. You can use whatever combination of nuts, seeds, and dried fruits you prefer, provided you keep the proportions the same, so feel free to adjust the recipe to suit your individual tastes.

Ingredients:

Dried Fruit

3/4 cup rolled oats (not instant)
1/4 cup chopped nuts (almonds, walnuts, or pecans)
2 tablespoons unsalted sunflower or pumpkin seeds (optional)
2 tablespoons flax seed
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil
1/2 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup dried fruit of your choice (raisins, chopped dates, chopped
apricots, cranberries, etc)

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350F degrees. Line an 8-inch baking pan with foil that overhangs the pan on all sides by at least one inch. Lightly grease the foil and set the pan aside.

Spread the oats, nuts, and seeds on a baking sheet and bake them for about 10 minutes, or until they are lightly toasted, stirring once or twice to insure even cooking. Remove the pan from the oven and let the oat/nut mixture cool completely.

Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the wheat germ, flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon with a whisk until blended and set aside.

In a large mixing bowl, stir the oil and brown sugar with a whisk until smooth. Stir in the egg and vanilla. Stir in the flour mixture just until combined, then stir in the oat mixture and dried fruit until well combined.

Spread the mixture into the prepared baking pan evenly, pressing gently. Bake the bars until they are set, about 25 to 30 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and place on a wire rack until the granola bars have cooled completely. Lift the slab of granola bars from the pan using the overhanging foil as handles and place on a cutting board. Cut into desired size bars.

These Homemade Granola Bars will keep at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 5 days.

Yield: One 8-inch pan of granola bars

Favorite Homemade Granola Bars Recipe

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Fruit Leather - Tips and a Recipe

Fruit leathers, also known as fruit rolls, are home made dried food snacks. Fruit leathers are made from pureed fresh produce which has been dried in a food dehydrator and then rolled into healthy snack sized pieces. Fruit leathers are easy to make and will cost less, and be better for you, than sugar laden imitators bought at the store.

Here are some tips to follow when making fruit leather:

Dried Fruit

Almost any produce will make an excellent roll. In particular, apples, apricots, peaches and nectarines are great fruits to dry. Many fruits can be pureed and combined together. Citrus fruits, which have a lot of juice, and smaller seedy fruits, like raspberries and blackberries, are best used in combinations with other fruits. Fruits high in fiber and pectin, such as apples or plums, have great textures when dried. Use fruits that are in season to obtain the best taste. Fruits that are over ripe, slightly bruised, or otherwise less than perfect are great for roll ups. Dehydrate fruit that will otherwise spoil. Apples or applesauce are excellent to combine with just about any other fruit Canned fruits can be used instead of fresh fruit. Make sure any liquids are completely drained before pureeing and dehydrating.

Try this recipe that mixes applesauce and strawberries:

Preparation

In a bowl combine 1 cup of unsweetened applesauce, 2 cups of strawberries and 1 tablespoon of lemon or lime juice. Puree the strawberries and applesauce mixture. If desired, you can add some sugar and sweeten to taste. You may want to taste the strawberry apple puree before sweetening. Mix together thoroughly.

Drying

Line a food dehydrator drying rack with parchment paper or non-stick dehydrator sheets. Pour the strawberry apple puree onto the drying tray and spread until about 1/4 inch thick. Dry at 130° Fahrenheit for 6 to 8 hours. You may want to flip the leather over half way through the drying process. Dry until no moist spots are visible.

Fruit Leather - Tips and a Recipe

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Bread Pudding Recipe For the Slow Cooker

If you have been looking for an easy dessert to prepare and serve for a special meal, you have found it. Making bread pudding in a slow cooker couldn't be easier. It also turns out just as delicious as the traditional way of preparing it. You can use any type of dried fruit in this recipe. Mixed fruits, raisins, dried apricots, and dates all work well.

Slow Cooker Bread Pudding Makes 6 to 8 servings

Dried Fruit

1 16 ounce loaf of day old white bread
1 1/2 cups milk
1 cup dried fruit, chopped small
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1 large apple, peeled, cored and chopped
1/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

Tear the bread slices into pieces about 1 to 2 inches in size. Place bread into the slow cooker. Pour milk over the pieces of bread, covering as much surface of the bread as you can. Let the bread soak for 20 to 30 minutes. (I like to let the bread soak while I am chopping the dried fruit.)

Stir the dried fruit, chopped apple and nuts into the bread mixture in the slow cooker.

In a small bowl, combine brown sugar, melted butter, egg and spices. Mix very well. Pour over bread mixture and mix until spice mixture is blended throughout the bread.

Cover and cook on LOW setting for 3 to 4 hours. A knife blade inserted in the center will come out clean when bread pudding is done. If you aren't ready to serve the pudding immediately, it holds its texture well when turned to WARM setting for up to an hour.

Hint: You can also substitute a fresh pear in place of the apple for a subtle difference in taste.

Bread Pudding Recipe For the Slow Cooker

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Banana Cake Recipe

Every family needs a great banana cake recipe, a delicious homemade cake that can be rustled up in no time at all, filling the house with that lovely banana aroma as it bakes.

This banana cake recipe is very simple, and is a great way to make use of those odd bananas that tend to languish in the fruit bowl. Once the skins go brown and spotty, they're just perfect for a recipe like this. Ripe bananas have much more flavor, and their soft texture means they blend into the cake mixture easily.

Dried Fruit

If you have a lot of ripe bananas you could make two banana cakes and freeze one. Another alternative is to freeze some of your ripe bananas. Just pop them, unpeeled, into a freezer bag and keep them frozen until needed. The skins will turn black, but that's simply a reaction to the cold temperature. Your bananas are still fine to use, and you can mash them straight from the freezer, or leave them to thaw first.

If you want to make a banana cake but your bananas aren't fully ripe, there's a cure - peel the bananas and put them in the microwave for a few seconds to soften them. Then use them in the banana cake recipe that follows:

Banana Cake Recipe

Ingredients

225g (8 oz, 2 cups) self-raising (self-rising) flour

100g (4 oz, 1/2 cup) soft margarine or softened butter

175g (6 oz, 3/4 cup) caster (superfine granulated) sugar

2 beaten eggs

3 bananas, peeled

175g (6 oz, 1 cup) dried fruit (use sultanas, raisins, currants, chopped glace cherries, candied peel or a mixture)

Makes a 2lb (900g) cake

Method
Pre-heat the oven to gas 4/180C/350F. Oil and base line a 2lb (900g) loaf pan. Put all the ingredients except the dried fruit into a food processor and blend until well mixed. Take the food processor bowl from the base machine, remove the processing blade and stir the dried fruit into the mixture. Spoon the cake mix into the pan and bake for around 1 hr 20 minutes, or until a fine knife blade inserted into the cake comes out clean. Check the cake after 1 hr 10 minutes and if neccessary cover with a piece of foil to prevent the top from burning. Leave until cool, then turn out of the tin. This banana cake keeps well in an airtight tin for 2-3 days, or refrigerate it for up to 7 days.

For a banana nut cake, substitute chopped walnuts for some or all of the dried fruit, and scatter some over the top of the cake before baking.

Banana Cake Recipe

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Fruit Leather - Tips and a Recipe

Fruit leathers, also known as fruit rolls, are home made dried food snacks. Fruit leathers are made from pureed fresh produce which has been dried in a food dehydrator and then rolled into healthy snack sized pieces. Fruit leathers are easy to make and will cost less, and be better for you, than sugar laden imitators bought at the store.

Here are some tips to follow when making fruit leather:

Almost any produce will make an excellent roll. In particular, apples, apricots, peaches and nectarines are great fruits to dry. Many fruits can be pureed and combined together.
Citrus fruits, which have a lot of juice, and smaller seedy fruits, like raspberries and blackberries, are best used in combinations with other fruits.
Fruits high in fiber and pectin, such as apples or plums, have great textures when dried.
Use fruits that are in season to obtain the best taste. Fruits that are over ripe, slightly bruised, or otherwise less than perfect are great for roll ups. Dehydrate fruit that will otherwise spoil.
Apples or applesauce are excellent to combine with just about any other fruit
Canned fruits can be used instead of fresh fruit. Make sure any liquids are completely drained before pureeing and dehydrating.

Try this recipe that mixes applesauce and strawberries:

Preparation

In a bowl combine 1 cup of unsweetened applesauce, 2 cups of strawberries and 1 tablespoon of lemon or lime juice. Puree the strawberries and applesauce mixture. If desired, you can add some sugar and sweeten to taste. You may want to taste the strawberry apple puree before sweetening. Mix together thoroughly.

Drying

Line a food dehydrator drying rack with parchment paper or non-stick dehydrator sheets. Pour the strawberry apple puree onto the drying tray and spread until about 1/4 inch thick.
Dry at 130° Fahrenheit for 6 to 8 hours. You may want to flip the leather over half way through the drying process. Dry until no moist spots are visible.

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How to Make a Healthy Fruit Salad - Free Raw Recipe

If you're wondering how to make a healthy fruit salad and something that is quick and easy, this raw food recipe is so simple it'll only take minutes to prepare. You can make it just prior to serving or make in advance and refrigerate.

There are many fruit salad recipes but not all of them are healthy. This raw fruit salad recipe is healthy and contains only fruits. It's versatile. If you leave something out it won't make a difference. You can add other fruits to it or substitute other fruits. It's one of my favorite healthy raw food recipes. All the kids and adults love it and ooh and ahh over it.

Dried Fruit

If possible, it's best to serve it first before the meal and enjoy the fast digestive benefits. Fruits usually digest within 15 minutes and digest better when not combined with fats and proteins. This saves the body's energy for other digestive processes and other work. Also, more is likely to be eaten before the meal rather than after when everyone is full. Or just serve it with the meal and let everyone help themselves.

Here's how to make a healthy fruit salad recipe:

Choose the fruits you like. You can leave any of these out, except one orange for mixing and bananas, but you may reduce the amount of bananas. The ingredients are:

1 cup of seedless grapes, cut in half

1 orange peeled and sliced in thin slices

1 orange - reserve for top

1-2 oranges for mixing

1 sweet apple like a Gala or tart apple if you like, cubed. Actually, any type of apple you have on hand is good.

1 pear cored, peeled and cubed

5-6 ripe, not green, bananas, sliced

1 handful to 1 cup of blueberries, fresh or frozen

1/2 cup fresh or frozen mango chunks

1/2 cup dried fruit, any combination chopped - figs, dates, raisins and/or cranberries, optional

1-2 cups strawberries, sliced, reserve 5-6 whole strawberries for top

1-2 kiwifruit, sliced thin, reserve for top, optional

Slice the bananas into a big bowl. Add any of the other fruits you like. Slowly and carefully fold them in, being careful not to bruise the fruit. Squeeze one orange, slowly add to the fruit and gently mix in. You may need two oranges if you have a lot of fruit. Lay some thin kiwi and strawberry slices around the edges, alternating or use your creativity. Refrigerate and serve chilled.

That's it. It's really simple and so sweet and healthy. Nothing cooked. No gluten and no dairy either. That's how to make a healthy fruit salad - a great raw food recipe you'll love to serve often

How to Make a Healthy Fruit Salad - Free Raw Recipe

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Bread Pudding Recipe For the Slow Cooker

If you have been looking for an easy dessert to prepare and serve for a special meal, you have found it. Making bread pudding in a slow cooker couldn't be easier. It also turns out just as delicious as the traditional way of preparing it. You can use any type of dried fruit in this recipe. Mixed fruits, raisins, dried apricots, and dates all work well.

Slow Cooker Bread Pudding Makes 6 to 8 servings

1 16 ounce loaf of day old white bread
1 1/2 cups milk
1 cup dried fruit, chopped small
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1 large apple, peeled, cored and chopped
1/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

Tear the bread slices into pieces about 1 to 2 inches in size. Place bread into the slow cooker. Pour milk over the pieces of bread, covering as much surface of the bread as you can. Let the bread soak for 20 to 30 minutes. (I like to let the bread soak while I am chopping the dried fruit.)

Stir the dried fruit, chopped apple and nuts into the bread mixture in the slow cooker.

In a small bowl, combine brown sugar, melted butter, egg and spices. Mix very well. Pour over bread mixture and mix until spice mixture is blended throughout the bread.

Cover and cook on LOW setting for 3 to 4 hours. A knife blade inserted in the center will come out clean when bread pudding is done. If you aren't ready to serve the pudding immediately, it holds its texture well when turned to WARM setting for up to an hour.

Hint: You can also substitute a fresh pear in place of the apple for a subtle difference in taste.

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How to Make a Healthy Fruit Salad - Free Raw Recipe

If you're wondering how to make a healthy fruit salad and something that is quick and easy, this raw food recipe is so simple it'll only take minutes to prepare. You can make it just prior to serving or make in advance and refrigerate.

There are many fruit salad recipes but not all of them are healthy. This raw fruit salad recipe is healthy and contains only fruits. It's versatile. If you leave something out it won't make a difference. You can add other fruits to it or substitute other fruits. It's one of my favorite healthy raw food recipes. All the kids and adults love it and ooh and ahh over it.

If possible, it's best to serve it first before the meal and enjoy the fast digestive benefits. Fruits usually digest within 15 minutes and digest better when not combined with fats and proteins. This saves the body's energy for other digestive processes and other work. Also, more is likely to be eaten before the meal rather than after when everyone is full. Or just serve it with the meal and let everyone help themselves.

Here's how to make a healthy fruit salad recipe:

Choose the fruits you like. You can leave any of these out, except one orange for mixing and bananas, but you may reduce the amount of bananas. The ingredients are:

1 cup of seedless grapes, cut in half

1 orange peeled and sliced in thin slices

1 orange - reserve for top

1-2 oranges for mixing

1 sweet apple like a Gala or tart apple if you like, cubed. Actually, any type of apple you have on hand is good.

1 pear cored, peeled and cubed

5-6 ripe, not green, bananas, sliced

1 handful to 1 cup of blueberries, fresh or frozen

1/2 cup fresh or frozen mango chunks

1/2 cup dried fruit, any combination chopped - figs, dates, raisins and/or cranberries, optional

1-2 cups strawberries, sliced, reserve 5-6 whole strawberries for top

1-2 kiwifruit, sliced thin, reserve for top, optional

Slice the bananas into a big bowl. Add any of the other fruits you like. Slowly and carefully fold them in, being careful not to bruise the fruit. Squeeze one orange, slowly add to the fruit and gently mix in. You may need two oranges if you have a lot of fruit. Lay some thin kiwi and strawberry slices around the edges, alternating or use your creativity. Refrigerate and serve chilled.

That's it. It's really simple and so sweet and healthy. Nothing cooked. No gluten and no dairy either. That's how to make a healthy fruit salad - a great raw food recipe you'll love to serve often

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Christmas Cake Recipe

December is the time for baking in the kitchen, insulated against the cold weather by a festive fug of spices, brandy and rich dried fruit: cookies, mince pies, Christmas pudding, Christmas cake. The Christmas cake should be prepared well ahead of time so it has time to develop moistness and flavour. Usually I procrastinate and bake it only a week before Christmas but this year I was determined to do it right. So yesterday the kitchen exuded a gentle spicy aroma as the cake cooked extremely slowly for four and a half hours. Just one whiff is enough to conjure up Christmas.

It is just the sort of rich, damp, heavy fruit cake that Captain Hook put out to poison the Lost Boys in the original Peter Pan story. That detail seems to have been omitted in the updated versions, maybe these days it seems too old-fashioned to believe that rich cake is death to young stomachs! My kids aren't really into the cake itself anyway, but they love the marzipan and icing, so will nibble meagrely at the cake in order to justify feasting on their icing and that of the adults as well, who Jack Sprat-like tend to prefer the cake and leave the excess sweet icing to the children.

Just before Christmas I usually get out the reliable old Delia Smith cook book to check out the cake recipe and quantities for the marzipan. Her recipes almost always work and are accurate if not always inspired. Now she is long supplanted by the younger, sexier Nigella, but her books are still at the back of my shelf for when I need to check details of some ordinary but useful dish.

Rich Fruit Cake Recipe

450g/1lb currants

175g/6oz sultanas

175g/6oz raisins

50g/2oz glace cherries(optional)

50g/2oz mixed candied peel chopped

3 tablespoons brandy

225g/8oz plain flour

½ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg

½ teaspoon mixed spice

225g/8oz unsalted butter

225g/8oz soft brown sugar

4 large eggs

50g/2oz chopped almonds

1 dessertspoon treacle

grated rind of 1 lemon

grated rind of 1 orange

The night before you want to make the cake, soak all the dried fruit and peel with the brandy. Leave it in a covered bowl over night or at least twelve hours.

Grease and line a 20cm/8 inch round cake tin or a 18cm/ 7 inch square one.

Sift together the flour, salt and spices. Cream the butter and sugar together in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy (make sure you do this thoroughly). Beat eggs and add them a little at a time to the creamed mixture, beating well each time. Next fold in the flour and spices gently. Stir in the dried fruit and peel, treacle and the grated lemon and orange rind. Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin and spread it out evenly. Tie a band of brown paper round the outside of the tin and cover the top of the cake with a double layer of greaseproof paper (with a hole cut in the middle of it) Bake the cake at 140C/275F on the lower shelf of the oven for 4 ¼ - 4 ¾ hours. Don't open the door to check until at least 4 hours have passed. Once the cake has cooled wrap it in a layer of greaseproof paper then foil. Delia recommends feeding it with brandy every week or so, by poking a couple of holes with a skewer then letting a few teaspoons of brandy soak in.

Our cake is now well wrapped in grease-proof paper and foil and stored on a shelf in the larder to steep in its own flavours. A week before Christmas I'll make the marzipan to go on it. I'll have a lot of help with that as the children vie to gather up any scraps that fall or are trimmed off. We've even converted marzipan haters in the family to our variety of almond paste, just by leaving out the almond essence, which gives the strong almost metallic taste to shop marzipan. Without it the real almond flavour gets a chance to shine through, more mellow and delicately nutty. (I'll write up my recipe for the marzipan and royal icing in my next article.)

On top of the marzipan goes the top layer of royal icing, made with icing sugar and egg white, put on rough to resemble a snowy scene. When I was growing up we had a set of figures for a Nativity scene that always decorated the cake and it was my favourite job to arrange them with a few tiny pine trees for added effect. You can be creative with your decoration, go for elegant with a single artificial poinsettia flower or fun with plastic animals - a donkey and ox, or as I often do being in Africa, a zebra, elephant and giraffe - standing around in the snow. Silver balls could make a star or you could find a tiny angel decoration to stand atop the cake heralding Christmas.

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How to make a healthy fruit salad - Raw Free Recipe

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If you wonder how food recipe healthy fruit salad for a quick and something that is easy for this product is so easy, requiring only minutes to prepare. You can just before serving or make ahead and refrigerate.

There are many recipes for fruit salads, but not all are healthy. This fruit salad recipes gross healthy and contains only fruit. It 'very versatile. If you forget something that will make a difference. You can select otherSubstitute fruit or other fruit. And 'one of my favorite healthy recipes for raw foods. All children and adults love to ooh and ahh and upward.

If possible, it is best to serve them before meals and enjoy the benefits of rapid digestion. Fruit usually within 15 minutes to digest and assimilate best when combined with fats and proteins. This saves energy in the body for other digestive and more. Moreover, instead of being eaten more meals, wheneveryone is full. Or simply serve only food and leave everything to help themselves.

Here sound like a recipe for a fruit salad:

Select the desired fruit. You can contact any of them, EXCEPT for the mixture of orange and banana, but you can reduces the amount of bananas. The ingredients are:

1 cup seedless grapes, halved

1 orange, peeled and thinly sliced

Reserve 1 orange - for the best

1-2 oranges a mixture

A sweet apple like aGala apple pie, or if you want, cut into cubes. In fact, any kind of Apple you happen to have a good compromise.

1 pear, cored, peeled and diced

5-6 ripe, not green, bananas, sliced

A handle of a cup of fresh or frozen blueberries

02:01 cut pieces of fresh or frozen mango

02:01 cup dried fruit, any combination - chopped dried figs, dates, raisins and / or cranberries, optional

1-2 cups strawberries, sliced, whole strawberries on top reserve 06:05

1-2 kiwi, slicedReserve tall, thin, optional

Cut the bananas into a large bowl. Add any other fruit you like. Slowly and carefully fold, taking care not to bruise the fruit. Squeeze an orange, slow to bear fruit and gently mix in, you may need two oranges if you have lots of fruit. Put a few slices of kiwi and Strawberry edges, or use your creativity. Refrigerator and serve cold.

That's it. It 'very simple and sweethealthy. Nothing cooked. Gluten, dairy products whatsoever. In other words, how to make a healthy fruit salad recipe - raw food that I love you too often

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Betty's Baked Potato Fans Recipe

In this video, Betty demonstrates how to make beautiful and tasty Baked Potato Fans. These are whole baking potatoes that have been peeled and cut into slices (almost to the bottom), then drizzled with butter, sprinkled with salt, topped with a glorious blend of herbs and cheeses and baked in the oven. They make a great accompaniment to almost any meal! Note: I made just 2 of these potatoes for demonstration purposes, but you can increase or decrease the amounts as needed. Ingredients: 2 medium baking potatoes ½ teaspoon salt 1 ½ tablespoons butter or margarine, melted 1 tablespoon of chopped fresh herbs (I used parsley, chives, thyme, and sage. You may use any or all of these. If you used dried herbs, use only 1 teaspoon altogether.) 2 tablespoons finely shredded sharp Cheddar cheese 1 tablespoon finely grated Romano or Parmesan cheese (I use Italian Peccorino Romano cheese.) cooking oil spray Wash and peel potatoes. Keep covered with water until ready to use. When ready to assemble recipe, dry the potatoes with a paper towel. Cut potatoes into thin slices, but not all the way through. Use the handle of a spoon to prevent knife from cutting all the way. Put potatoes in a baking dish that has been sprayed with cooking oil. Fan the potatoes slightly. Sprinkle with salt and drizzle with butter or margarine. Sprinkle with herbs. Bake potatoes at 425 degrees for about 50 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle with cheeses. Bake potatoes for another 10 to 15 minutes until ...

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Start with Home Cooking - Easy Muffin Recipe

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Muffins can be intimidating, but if you try to form a new year resolution versions of your favorite baked goods at home product? Bake muffins at home can help save money, eat healthy, because you adjust the ingredients for an experimental control, and a means of maximizing revenue for your situation.

When is a family favorite muffins are learning to cook a good basis for adding new culinary skills (recipe below). You can learn by doing, and you get to eattasty results.

Muffins are easy if you follow a few basic tips:

Be sure to mix the dry ingredients separate from the rain, then at the end of the mix .. combine
Use a spoon or spatula, fold about 10-12 shots of wet and dry. Better a number of bits in the exhibition mix flour and muffins are too hard.
Choose a pan or muffin tin with many wells, or as near as possible. 12-A version is also widespread. You can have twoPots, if necessary, side by side in the oven.
Rack Centrally located for muffins
Use muffin cups with oil, if desired, or cooking spray, or easily get the pan with a brush on the dough into the corners. Each of these methods, it is easy to remove the muffins in the oven.

A basic muffin recipe can be many variations. Maybe you're a nut. You can walnuts, or that contain a combination of nuts. Or substitute another dried fruit,Raisins, such as cherries. Alternatively, replace the dry peanut butter, chocolate chips or butter. As you learn to identify the combinations you like.

Banana Raisin Muffins

A simple recipe for muffins with popular ingredients. These are delicious for breakfast, snacks or meals.

1 teaspoon Bran cereal (like All Bran)
1 teaspoon milk
3 T. vegetable oil (rape, for example)
1 beaten egg
1 1 / 4 c. Flour
2 T. sugar
2T baking powder
4.1 tonnesSalt
4.3 V. ripe banana, mashed
2.1 C. Raisins
2.1 C. chopped walnuts (optional)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix and milk in a large bowl. Let stand for 3 minutes. Oil and egg. Mix well. Then add the bananas and raisins. In another bowl, flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Mix the dry ingredients to the mixture moist until all mixed. Do not mix. Pour the batter into muffin cups. Fill 2 / 3 full. Bake until golden brown, about 30 minutes. Serve hot. GiveAbout 12 standard size muffins.

When you cook some recipes, you'll be better able to assess all new recipes that you plan and decide if it wants to do something.

There are many recipes online sites and videos available to help you before you were always comfortable in the kitchen. Gaining experience, started with a simple recipe, and these resources will help you make the home kitchen.

Other suggestions bakers muffin

Usebread basket with a damp cloth or doubled, while the muffins warm at the table.
Set your table with plates of bread in 4.5 to 6 cm in diameter for large muffins.
They have a lot of soft butter or a complementary flavor jelly or jam spread.
Make muffins for extra gifts, office parties or get out of cooking. They are useful for buffet dinners or potlucks, too.

The muffins are popular, and once you are an expert baker, you are often used. Learning to cook caneven more fun when you share the delicious results with family and friends.

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Granola Recipe, How-To, Cooking Tips : Tamra Davis ...

Granola is super good for you and your kids. All the seeds and nuts provide so many beneficial vitamins, minerals, fats and proteins. Its also a great recipe to experiment with.Hungry Nation's 'Tamra Davis Cooking Show' features great recipes for cooking delicious meals and food for your family. Tamra is a real Mom cooking real food. New episodes every Thursday. Hungry Nation Website: www.HungryNation.tv http Twitter: www.twitter.com Recipe: Granola (Makes 6 cups) 3 cups of organic oats 1 cup of shredded coconut (sweetened or not) 1 cup of chopped nuts (almonds, walnuts or pecans) ½ cup of seeds (sesame seeds, sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds) ½ teaspoon of salt ½ a cup of honey or maple syrup 1/3 a cup of sunflower oil ¼ cup of apple or orange juice 1 teaspoon of vanilla 1 cup of chopped dried fruit (raisins, dried apricots, apples, cranberries) Heat oven to 350. Add all the dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. Stir it up. Add the wet ingredients together in a separate bowl and stir them up. Pour wet over dry and coat thoroughly. Lay the granola flat and even in a shallow pan (best is a heavy duty baking sheet with edges). Make sure it is not more than one inch thick or you may need to use two pans. Bake for about 20 minutes. You need to check and stir it up after about 10 minutes. Dont let it burn. Transfer back to the bowl and stir in dried fruit once its cooled a bit. Serve with your favorite milk or yogurt. Store the rest in an airtight jar. *Ive been ...

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Bread pudding recipe for slow cooker

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If you are looking for a sweet easy to prepare and serve a special meal, you are getting. Make bread pudding in a slow cooker could not be easier. Furthermore, it is equally delicious as the kind of preparation is traditional. You may harbor some form of dried fruit in the present. The mixed fruit, raisins, dried apricots and dates and all the work.

Slow Cooker Bread Pudding Makes 6-8 servings

A piece of white bread 16 oz old days
12.1 liters of milk
1 cup nuts, chopped
Cup chopped pecans 02:01
1 large apple, peeled, seeded and chopped
cup brown sugar Lunch 04:01
04:01 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 beaten egg
1 teaspoon teaspoon cinnamon
4.1 teaspoon cloves
Nutmeg 4.1
4.1 tsp ground ginger

Tear bread into pieces about 1-2 inches high. Place the bread in the bowl. Pour the milk over the bread pieceson the surface of the bread as you can. Soak the bread for 20-30 minutes. (I like to soak the bread, while I was chopping dried fruit).

Stir in dried fruit, chopped nuts and apples in mixture of bread in the casserole.

In a small bowl, combine brown sugar, butter, eggs and spices. Mix well. Pour the bread mixture and stir until the mixture is the mixture of spices all over the bread.

Coverage at low temperature3-4 hours. A knife is inserted in the center of Come Clean when bread pudding is done. If you're not ready, the cake is served immediately, keep very well that the plot turned to heat for an hour.

Tip: You can also substitute fresh pears instead of apples for a subtle difference in taste.

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