Banana Cinnamon Muffins

Source:  Betty Crocker

Ingredients

Muffins:
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 vegetable oil
2 eggs
2/3 cup mashed very ripe bananas (2 small bananas)
1 tsp vanilla
1 2/3 all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

Topping:
1/4 sugar
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 butter, melted

Heat oven to 375°F. Grease bottoms only of 12 regular-size muffin cups or line with paper baking cups.  In medium bowl, beat 2/3 cup sugar, the oil and eggs with wire whisk. Stir in bananas and vanilla. Stir in remaining muffin ingredients just until moistened. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups. Bake 17 to 21 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Immediately remove from pan to cooling rack.


In small bowl, mix 1/4 cup sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Dip muffin tops into melted butter, then into cinnamon-sugar. Serve warm.

No-Bake Energy Bites

I found these super yummy morsels on Pinterest.  Hooray for Pinterest--love it!  Anyway, they're quick, easy, and oh so yummy.  Thanks to gimmesomeoven.com for this awesome recipe!

Ingredients
1 cup dry oatmeal
2/3 cup toasted coconut flakes
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 ground flaxseed or wheat germ
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips (optional)
1/3 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla

Stir all ingredients together in a medium bowl until thoroughly mixed. Let chill in the refrigerator for half an hour. Once chilled, roll into 1 inch balls.  Store in an airtight container and keep refrigerated for up to 1 week.

Makes about 15-20 balls.

No-Bake Oatmeal Cookies

 

Ingredients

2 c. sugar
1/3 c. Cocoa
1/2 c. milk
1/2 c. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt
3 c. quick oats
1 c. coconut
1/4 c. peanut butter

Instructions

In large sauce pan combine sugar, cocoa, milk, and butter and boil for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
Add vanilla and salt and peanut butter. Stir in oatmeal and coconut. If its too runny, add more quick oats to thicken. Drop onto wax paper, let cool.

Onion Baked Chicken

 

Ingredients

• 10 chicken breast tenderloins or strips
• 1/4 cup margarine, melted
• pepper to taste, salt lightly
• 1 (1 ounce) envelope dry onion soup mix
• 3/4 cup water

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Place chicken in a 9x13 inch baking dish. Pour melted margarine over the chicken strips. Season with salt and pepper, and sprinkle with dry onion soup mix.
3. Pour 3/4 of a cup of water into the bottom of the pan, helping the chicken stay moist.
4. At 30 minutes, turn the chicken and pepper the bottom of the chicken.
5. Bake 40 minutes in the preheated oven, or until chicken is no longer pink and juices run clear.

Pizza Rolls

Pizza Rolls

I found this recipe on Pinterest, but the original source is What About Pie?

This recipe is easy peasy, quick and breezy!

I modified it from the original recipe and now it's even easier!

Roll out some pillsbury crescent rolls, keeping the triangles together so that they form a rectangle. 

Lightly spread with olive oil.  (This time I didn't have any olive oil, so I used canola oil instead.)  

Cover with pepperoni. 

 Sprinkle on some mozzarella cheese. 

(The one of the far right was Jason's, hence, lots of cheese!)

 Add just a touch of Italian Seasoning.

 Roll them up.

Bake for 10-11 minutes at 375 degrees.

We were so hungry and they were so good....I forgot to take a picture of the finished product before we started eating.  But trust me, they're awesome! 

(Even my picky girls loved them!)

Lemon Cake Mix Cookies

Lemon Cake Mix Cookies

I've really been wanting something lemony lately, but I don't have any lemon recipes.  So I just used a lemon cake mix and followed the recipe for Cake Mix Cookies.  They turned out SO yummy!  I bet they would have been really good dipped in Cool Whip.

1 box cake mix
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs

Pour cake mix into a mixing bowl. Add oil and eggs, and mix well. Roll into 1-inch balls and place on ungreased pan (I flatten them just a touch). Bake at 350 for about 7 minutes.


For half the batch I mixed Betty Crocker Pearls Cupcake Gems into the dough.  The kids loved these ones, but they were a bit too crunchy for me.  I liked the soft, chewy, plain ones better.

Ham & Cheese Crescent Rolls

Ham & Cheese Crescent Rolls

Source:  cooking4carnivores



Jason and I love these!  They're just so dang good.  And easy peesy, too!

Roll out some crescent rolls.  Keep two triangles together to make it a rectangle.  Sprinkle on some mozzarella cheese and lay out some sliced ham.

Roll them up and bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees.

Enjoy!