"Jeans" Apple Bread

Bread Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1cup sugar
2 cups finely chopped apples (peeled, cored)
1/4 cup cooking oil
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon shredded lemon peel (optional)
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)

Bread Crumb Topping Ingredients:

1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
4 tablespoons butter (half a stick)

Directions:

Grease bottom and 1/2 inch up the sides of an 8x4x2 inch loaf pan; set aside.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg; set aside.

In another medium mixing bowl combine sugar, chopped apples, cooking oil, egg, and lemon-mix well.

Add dry mix to apple mix and stir just until moistened (batter should be lumpy).

Fold in walnuts or pecans

Spoon Batter into the prepared pan. Bake at 350 at 50 minutes or until a wooden toothpick in center comes out clean.

Place crumb topping on bread before baking.

Cool completely before removing from pan.

Enjoy!

Zucchini Bread

Ingredients
2 cups raw grated zucchini
3 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 cup oil
2 cups flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
2 tsp soda
3 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped nuts optional
1 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 -1 cup dates or raisins optional
1tsp allspice- (orig recipe calls for mace, I use allspice)
1/4 tsp cloves
Beat eggs, add sugar, oil, zucchini, mixing well. Sift together dry ingredients and beat into egg mixture. Add vanilla, and nuts, dates or raisins.
Pour into greased and floured loaf pan Bake at 350 for one hour or until done. Makes two smaller loaves or one large loaf. Depends on what type of pans you have.

Banana Chip Muffins

My boys eat a lot of bananas. A LOT. It is rare that bananas get overripe before they eat them; however, it happened when we went over 90 degrees for a week, and I had to figure out something to do with them so they didn't go to waste. This recipe was perfect, and will be my go-to recipe for using up bananas!

Banana Chip Muffins

Ingredients:
1 egg
1/3 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup sugar
3 medium ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 1/3 cups)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup old-fashioned oats
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup miniature semisweet choc. chips

Directions:
In large mixing bowl, eat egg, oil, and sugar until smooth. Stir in bananas. Combine the flour, oats, baking soda, baking powder, and salt; stir into the banana mixture just until moistened. Stir in chocolate chips.

Fill greased muffin cups 3/4 full. Bake at 375 for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

Notes:
I tripled this recipe and it made exactly 4 dozen muffins. (recipe says 1 dozen). I think I baked them for 18 minutes, and they were just a tad on the overdone side (the bottoms were browner than I like); so I would check them a couple of minutes sooner. But they did freeze well, and even taste great frozen!

Enjoy!